Getty Images“Does this post contain hate speech?”
That is the message that thousands of Facebook users have reported seeing on their news feeds.
It seems to be only US-based users that can see the question, which is appearing under every post on their Facebook page.
While some have criticised the social media giant for the move, others are calling it a bug and pointing out the more unusual places where they have seen it appear.
A Facebook spokesperson said they were unable to comment at this time.
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If users click “yes” to respond that the post does contain hate speech, they are presented with four options for feedback.
These options are “hate speech”, “test p1”, “test p2” and “test p3”, prompting some people to suggest that the form “clearly wasn’t supposed” to appear on Facebook in its current form.
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And Lebanese-American journalist Brigitte Gabriel labelled it an attempt by Facebook to “censor” her account.
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But as others noticed the button appearing on all of the posts in their timeline, people began to share the funniest place they had seen the button appear.
And Washington Post journalist Gene Park shared this suggestion that a photo of a puppy might be somehow hateful.
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This comes as Facebook hosts its biggest event ever, with 5,000 developers flying in from around the world for the F8 developer conference on May 1-2.
This prompted social media journalist Matt Navarra to joke that even Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg was not exempt from the hate speech button.
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By Tom Gerken, UGC & Social News