• Engadget, Tuesday, September 5, 2017 3:44 PM

Engadget considers a recent feature in Wired, which surveyed the “toxicity” levels of online commenting around the country based on a Google-owned API named Perspective. “The underlying API used to determine ‘toxicity’ scores phrases like ‘I am a gay black woman’ as 87 percent toxicity, and phrases like ‘I am a man’ as the least toxic,” it notes. The lesson? “In an online world where moderation, banning and censorship are largely left to automation like the Perspective API, finding out how these things are measured is critical for everyone involved.”

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