Frost
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1083

Facebook suspends user for an unfortunate typo: A Twitter user reported about how his Facebook account was suspended. He shared a video of a local news report about Michigan Governor Whitmer's COVID-19 restrictions being overturns by the state supreme court. His post that went with the video said: "The governor is totally violating the supreme court order and her states constitution. What they did was wrong but tranny must be redressed by the American people." In the tweet that he made about his three day suspension for what Facebook deemed "hate speech," he stated: "Facebook restricted my account. I'm gay. This was not hate speech, it was a quote out of the US Constitution. Election interference? #censorship." It seems that what the user meant to say was that "tyranny must be redressed," but because he instead wrote "tranny must be redressed," which makes no sense in context, Facebook served him a three day suspension instead of just flagging it for him to correct the error. This is a case of AI censorship gone wrong.

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