Facebook's global head of safety has admitted the social network needs more people to help tackle hate speech, with its detection software failing to pick up on it as effectively as other offensive content.
While insisting that the platform remained a safe place for its users, Antigone Davis told Sky News
the company acknowledged that more "human involvement" was needed to help bolster its efforts to protect them from hate speech.
"When you're talking about hate speech, it can require a good deal of context in which to understand the term that someone has used or how they're using it," Ms Davis said.
"I think that is an area in which we need human involvement."
In its recently released Transparency Report, Facebook reported that its detection software had found 99.7% of spam and 99.5% of terrorist propaganda before it was flagged by any of its two billion users.
But its algorithms had only discovered 38% of hate speech, despite many of the posts easily accessible to any user with a quick search. Sky News found pages containing the antisemitic phrase "Jewish Ritual Murder".
And despite numerous protests from Jewish human rights groups, Facebook...
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