FB wants me to rat on my friends? No thx

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Opinion

May 2, 2018 - 11:00 PM

Some Facebook users were alarmed Tuesday to see a new feature in their news feeds. Under many posts, Facebook had added this question:

“Does this post contain hate speech?” along with two buttons, “Yes” and “No.”

A good move by Facebook to help identify and root out all the nastiness of social media? Or an ominous invitation to its users to become informants?

Facebook reportedly disabled the feature after its morning test — which Guy Rosen, Facebook’s vice president of product, called “a bug” on Twitter — but not before it sparked immediate concern among users.

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