Huge Blunder By Facebook Bots As They Label US Declaration Of Independence As ‘Hate Speech’

Artificial intelligence can be dangerous at times. At least, when it is tasked to judge some sensitive issues. And now, when robots are expected to do content filtering, there are strong chances that they may falter. This is what happened with Facebook, which had to apologise after its content-filtering algorithms flagged the US Declaration of Independence as a hate speech.

Parts of the document was flagged as “hate speech” by Facebook bots after a Liberty, Texas-based newspaper, the Liberty County Vindicator, posted on Facebook “small bites” from the Declaration in the lead up to the country’s Independence Day on July 4.

Facebook later restored the post and tendered an apology to the newspaper, Liberty County Vindicator said in a report on Tuesday.