The idea that countries should have a say in large-scale social experiments run on their population is foreign to Facebook. In the US, Congress can at least summon an exec or two for grilling. Guatemala just has to take it, whether it's misinformation in 2017 or remittances now.
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It takes a special kind of guts to YOLO major changes in social media dynamics in Sri Lanka, a country where the wounds of a 20 year civil war have not healed, when you only have a handful of native speakers monitoring things from Dublin. But that's the kind of guts Facebook has.
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Countries at the global periphery are seen as "staging servers" for evaluating initiatives that will be applied at home. Vide "Foucault's boomerang".
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Would a better way to do this be representative samples in all countries?
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Or use more ‘stable’ countries as staging servers? Maybe Germany can have beta access.
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It’s a bit like A/B testing headlines but on a larger scale. Any half competent business would be doing the same. You can model and wargame, but at some point you have to run it live.
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