My use of the ubiquitous "monkey with hands covering face" emoji could also be culpable. "If you swap a word with an emoji, the model suddenly can't pick up on it any more," says Dr Vidgen. Much like some of the abuse directed at the England players, online trolls have been using emojis to avoid being flagged by the system. It is possible that Twitter over-corrected, and my use of the emoji was mistakenly flagged as hateful.

Source: Express July 17, 2021 23:15 UTC