This ex-NSA hacker is hunting white supremacists and hate groups lurking on Twitter

• In 2016, researchers found more than 900 hate groups operating in the US, with over 100 of them having a presence on Twitter.
• Twitter has declared a ban on them and last month the purge began. But Twitter also got heat for doing it wrong when it banned a satire site.
• Ex-NSA analyst Emily Crose has been single-handedly trying to make this problem easier to solve by developing an AI system that identifies “dog whistle” images.

Twitter and Facebook say hate speech is a violation of their policies but they also say it can be hard to identify who is engaged in bona fide hate speech and who isn’t.

Twitter demonstrated the problem earlier this week when it came under fire for blocking a German satirical magazine’s Twitter account after it parodied anti-Muslim comments.

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