Facebook's failure to pay attention to non-English languages allows hate speech to flourish
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If like many Australian Muslims you have reported hate speech to Facebook and received an automated response saying it doesn't breach the platform's community standards, you are not alone. We and our team are the first Australian social scientists to receive funding through Facebook's content policy research awards, which we used to investigate hate speech on LGBTQI+ community pages in five Asian countries.