Facebook is still terrible at managing hate speech

That tweet launched hundreds of disgusting, racist responses on both Twitter and Facebook, some of which Oluo screenshotted and posted on a Medium article she wrote describing the situation. Somewhat surprisingly, Twitter actually responded in a proactive way, removing abusive content and shutting down accounts. "Now, perhaps it's because Twitter has made a lot of headlines lately for failing to address abuse and harassment that I'm able to say that Twitter has actually done a pretty good job of handling this abuse," said Oluo in the article. "Just about everything that I reported for slurs and threats was removed and quite a few of the offending accounts were locked."

Facebook, however, didn't react as well. Oluo said she couldn't report abusive responses from her phone -- it wasn't even an option -- and when she was able to report them, Facebook didn't do anything about them. So, she started posting screenshots of some of the racist comments as well as death and rape threats she was receiving and Facebook suspended her account for it. "I write and speak about race in America because I already see this hate every day. It's the complicity of one of the few platforms that people of color have to speak out about this hate that gets me," said Oluo, who added, "Any time people of color, especially women of color, speak the truth — we are silenced. And facebook is helping."