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We Now Know Why Twitter Won't Ban White Supremacists From Its Platform, and It's Disturbingly Understandable
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Twitter's use of algorithms to detect harmful speech has been successful in stifling ISIS propaganda on the site, but white supremacist content still runs rampant.

During a March meeting, a Twitter employee asked an executive a simple question: if Twitter could apply algorithms that successfully ban ISIS, why can't it do the same for white supremacy?

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