Facebook will 'get better' on hate speech: COO
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Facebook "has to get better" at removing hate speech, the company's COO Sheryl Sandberg said Tuesday before meeting with the organizers of a Facebook advertising boycott.
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"We have made real progress over the years, but this work is never finished and we know what a big responsibility Facebook has to get better at finding and removing hateful content," Sandberg wrote on Facebook on Tuesday morning. "We are making changes – not for financial reasons or advertiser pressure, but because it is the right thing to do."
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"Over many years, we’ve spent billions of dollars on teams and technology to find and remove hate – as well as protect the integrity of our platform more generally," Sandberg wrote.
Major companies began boycotting Facebook ads in June as part of the Stop Hate For Profit campaign supported by groups including the Anti-Defamation League and NAACP. The companies include Verizon, Ben & Jerry's, Unilever and others.