Researchers at the University of Sydney and University of Queensland are calling on Facebook to consult more and offer better training for page moderators to proactively respond to online hate speech in the Asia Pacific region. The Facebook-funded regional report into hate speech regulation, Regulating Hate Speech in the Asia Pacific, indicates despite automated moderation and improved content standards, the platform is still allowing vilification and discrimination to proliferate on public pages, with inadequate mechanisms to address it. The report also recommends that Facebook holds an annual regional hate speech roundtable for stakeholder groups, and…