I'd wondered in 2013 if Myanmar/Burma would be the first Facebook-fueled ethnic cleansing campaign. Here we are.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/359368606166958080 …
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People often ask how I "predict" such things. I'm a one woman operation; don't even have an assistant. And I'm not the only one predicting+
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..+such stuff (just more visible). I mean this: some domain knowledge + history makes much of this pretty clear. Astonishing FB is so blind.
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I’m not a Myanmar/Burma expert. If I was worried as early as 2013, Facebook should have had a giant emergency team. I would like more info.pic.twitter.com/dLNZshJ4aM
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Andrew Losowsky
People have been raising alarms for years. What do to is thorny—but this should have been all hands on deck at FB.https://twitter.com/losowsky/status/923417742681821185 …
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Point isn't Facebook could have single-handedly changed everything. But in ethnic cleansings, specifics of propaganda tools matter greatly.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted John Paton
There are no good options here—including Facebook’s. It should’ve been treated as a an emergency with giant teams.https://twitter.com/jxpaton/status/923574152803602432 …
zeynep tufekci added,
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Anyone with a giant platform NEEDS a plan for this. A way to respond rapidly and decisively as soon as you're pulled into a genocide.
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Replying to @RichFelker @zeynep
Needs large human team, screened to exclude anyone with sympathies/biases towards group committing genocide or to falsely implicate others.
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Replying to @RichFelker @zeynep
Empower them to search all non-private content (anything with large reach), remove anything stirring pro-genocide sentiment, and,,,
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...immediately ban any users actively advocating genocide.
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