According to Al Jazeera, as the United Nations marks International Day for Countering Hate Speech, artificial intelligence systems continue to struggle with online hate detection. AI models falter when confronted with sarcasm, coded language, and cultural nuance—the very subtleties that make hate speech insidious. The gap exposes a fundamental limit: teaching machines to recognize malice requires understanding context in ways current systems simply cannot. Human moderators remain indispensable, bearing the interpretive burden that algorithms cannot.

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