
Facebook rushed to apologize on Friday after it labeled black men as “primates”. A Facebook spokesperson told The New York Times, which first reported the story, that it was a “clearly unacceptable error” of its auto-generated recommendation system and said the software involved was disabled.
“We apologize to anyone who may have seen these offensive recommendations,” Facebook – whose senior management team is completely white – said in response to an AFP inquiry. “We disabled the entire topic recommendation feature as soon as we realized this was happening so we could investigate the cause and prevent this from happening again.”
Facebook users in recent days who watched a British tabloid video featuring Black men were show an auto-generated prompt asking if they would like to “keep seeing videos about Primates?”
A screen capture of the recommendation was shared on Twitter by former Facebook content design manager Darci Groves, who said a friend sent her a screenshot of the video in question with the company’s auto-generated prompt. The video, dated 27 June 2020, was posted by UK’s Daily Mail.
It contained clips of two separate incidents, which appear to take place in the US. One shows a group of black men arguing with a white individual on a road in Connecticut, while the other shows several black men arguing with white police officers in Indiana before being detained. “This ‘keep seeing’ prompt is unacceptable,” Groves tweeted, aiming the message at former colleagues at Facebook. “This is egregious.”
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Jeff Zuckerberg should be personally fined. This privileged WHITE male just doesn’t get the systemic racism that he’s perpetuating. This rich white male has clearly not learned CRT.
@Concerned American: Leave Jeff Zuckerberg alone! It’s not his fault that he has the same last name as Mark Zuckerberg the founder of Facebook.
Whatever.
THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION REGARD HOMO SAPIENS AS A BRANCH OF THE APE FAMILY – PRIMATES.
Even an inanimate computer program knows … and primates’ lives matter!