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White Supremacist GOP Candidate Paul Nehlen Suspended From Twitter; His Fans Spew Racist and Antisemitic Comments in Response

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Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)2/12/2018 1:36:35 pm PST

Wired is killing it today with stories about how tech has contributed to the uglification of our culture. Viz:

Predicting what fresh hell these automated systems will stumble upon next is a problem that’s not limited to Alphabet. As ProPublica found, last year, Facebook allowed advertisers to target users who were interested in terms like “jew hater.” Facebook hadn’t created the category intentionally; its automated tools had used information users wrote on their own profiles to create entirely new categories

Autocomplete suggestions are still a problem.