On Wednesday, one day after Facebook had announced that two billion people use its service every month, ProPublica released a bombshell investigation into the company's hate-speech censorship guidelines. The report included documents that revealed that Facebook's rules often end up protecting  the rights of those in power over those who are powerless. These two revelations are inextricably entwined, each enabling and necessitating the other.

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