Facebook flags Declaration of Independence as hate speech

Facebook flags Declaration of Independence as hate speech

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jul/4/facebook-flags-declaration-independence-hate-speec/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork

Excerpt: Part of the standard notice, Vindicator managing editor Casey Stinnett wrote, included a warning that the newspaper could lose its Facebook account, on which it depends for much of its reach, if there were more violations. The offending passage? It was part of the document’s “Bill of Particulars” against Britain’s King George III: “He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.”