Richard Vetstein

Facebook censors user for innocuous comment about Russian coaches in the Olympics: A Twitter user shared a screenshot of his Facebook censorship notice. He claimed that he "just got suspended from Facebook for commenting that Russian ice skating coaches were 'heartless' after last night's debacle [in the Olympics]." The comment he made read: "So sad and infuriating to watch last night. Russian coaches are heartless." According to the screenshot, Facebook found this violated its rules against "hate speech," though this must be due to a faulty algorithm as there is nothing hateful about the comment. The user's comment was deleted. He appealed the decision but it was unclear how that turned out.

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