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But two new studies show that AI trained to identify [[hate speech]] may actually end up amplifying racial bias. In one study, researchers found that leading AI models for processing hate speech were one-and-a-half times more likely to flag tweets as offensive or hateful when they were written by [[African American]]s, and 2.2 times more likely to flag tweets written in African American English (which is commonly spoken by black people in the US).<ref>https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/8/15/20806384/social-media-hate-speech-bias-black-african-american-facebook-twitter</ref>}}
But two new studies show that AI trained to identify [[hate speech]] may actually end up amplifying racial bias. In one study, researchers found that leading AI models for processing hate speech were one-and-a-half times more likely to flag tweets as offensive or hateful when they were written by [[African American]]s, and 2.2 times more likely to flag tweets written in African American English (which is commonly spoken by black people in the US).<ref>https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/8/15/20806384/social-media-hate-speech-bias-black-african-american-facebook-twitter</ref>}}
===Efforts to end censorship===
===Efforts to end Big Tech censorship===
Some proposals to curb excesses of social media involve using anti-trust to break them up or for increasing regulation on the companies. These proposals are primarily offered by democrats<ref>[https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/16/18627709/bernie-sanders-democrat-facebook-break-up-elizabeth-warren-instagram-whatsapp Bernie Sanders becomes latest 2020 candidate to call for Facebook breakup]</ref>
Some proposals to curb excesses of social media involve using anti-trust to break them up or for increasing regulation on the companies. These proposals are primarily offered by democrats<ref>[https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/16/18627709/bernie-sanders-democrat-facebook-break-up-elizabeth-warren-instagram-whatsapp Bernie Sanders becomes latest 2020 candidate to call for Facebook breakup]</ref>
<ref>[https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/techwatch/corinne-weaver/2019/05/14/democrats-newest-line-break-or-regulate-facebook Democrats’ Newest Line: Break Up Or Regulate Facebook]</ref>
<ref>[https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/techwatch/corinne-weaver/2019/05/14/democrats-newest-line-break-or-regulate-facebook Democrats’ Newest Line: Break Up Or Regulate Facebook]</ref>