Found the same story published 3 years ago with better title: "Study finds racial bias in tweets flagged as hate speech" https://as.cornell.edu/news/study-find

Found the same story published 3 years ago with better title: "Study finds racial bias in tweets flagged as hate speech" https://as.cornell.edu/news/study-finds-racial-bias-tweets-flagged-hate-speech https://as.cornell.edu/news/study-finds-racial-bias-tweets-f... >“When we as researchers, or the people we pay online to do crowdsourced annotation, look at these tweets and have to decide, ‘Is this hateful or not hateful?’ we may see language written in what linguists consider African American English and be more likely to think that it’s something that is offensive due to our own internal biases,” Davidson said. “We want people annotating data to be aware of the nuances of online speech and to be very careful in what they’re considering hate speech.” The actual paper says more: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.12516.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.12516.pdf > many of the AAE tweets also use words like “n*gga” and “b*tch”, and are thus frequently associated with the hate speech and offensive classes