We tested Google's new harassment tool on hateful right-wing comments

In today’s harsh political climate, there's no shortage of abuse and trolls — which is why it's great that Google released a new tool to combat hateful speech on the internet. 

It's called Perspective, and the New York Times and other publications will use the algorithm to comb through comments to search for harassment and insults. 

It rates messages on a scale from "very healthy" to "very toxic" so that they can be automatically removed or sent to human moderators. 

We took the tool on a test drive with some of the far-right's most offensive comments.  Read more...