Facebook Defends Policies on Hate Speech Amid Ad Pullback

Watch: Nick Clegg, Facebook Inc. vice president of global affairs and communications, says the social-media giant will continue to look at further measures to prevent hate speech on its platform. (Source: Bloomberg)

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By Michael Tobin

June 29, 2020 at 8:35 PM UTC

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Facebook Inc. defended its policies on hate speech amid an advertising boycott to push the social media company to do more.

“We have an industry leading record in how we deal with dark side of the internet,” said Nick Clegg, vice president for global affairs, in an interview on Bloomberg Television Monday. Facebook has developed the world’s most sophisticated machine learning and artificial intelligence systems to root out hate speech and misinformation, he said.