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Facebook Unveils New Bigot Recognition Technology
2018-11-14
[Babylon Bee] MENLO PARK, CA‐In a move to better filter out unapproved positions and people, Facebook unveiled its new Bigot Recognition Technology (BRT) at a press event Tuesday.

The new tech automatically detects people who are likely to be prejudiced, backward cretins and flags them for removal from the social network.

"We're looking for key indicators of bigotry, like being white, believing in God, and holding any political position to the right of Stalin," Mark Zuckerberg said at the event. "Our algorithm has been trained to flag and remove offensive people who aren't welcome on our platform: straight, cisgendered males, conservative people, and of course, Christians."

Facebook's new technology did have a major hiccup early on, when it flagged several Antifa pages, but Zuckerberg had his engineering team program an exception for bigots on the left. "If you're being intolerant for the sake of tolerance, then yes, you're exempt from our new bigot filters, obviously," he said.
Posted by:Besoeker

#10  agreed. I suggest a ball peen hammer for physical confirmation for the designers
Posted by: Frank G   2018-11-14 21:03  

#9  Phrenology must be a necessary tool of the technology.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2018-11-14 21:00  

#8  The Bee is dangerously close to reality here
Posted by: Boss Spoper5850   2018-11-14 17:13  

#7  Cincinnati Reds fans hardest hit.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2018-11-14 13:14  

#6  Probably programmed it to look for red hats.

So me and my John Deere cap are good to go.....
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2018-11-14 10:49  

#5  Probably programmed it to look for red hats.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2018-11-14 10:00  

#4  The problem is that today, it is sometimes hard to tell the difference between satire and reality.

That's why I always look at the source to see if it is BabylonBee, Onion, DuffelBlog, or one of the other satire sites.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2018-11-14 09:48  

#3  Keep telling yourself that, bunky...
Posted by: Raj   2018-11-14 08:17  

#2  Hopefully the sting of humiliation taught everyone to be more active in detecting obvious satire. It looks really bad for the Right when people blow their tops getting angry at positions literally nobody holds.
Posted by: Herb McCoy   2018-11-14 06:12  

#1  Totally believable.

And before Herb McCoy weighs in on my opinion, he can........
Posted by: Raj   2018-11-14 00:49  

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