People warned FB about this for years. Dropping mass connectivity without oversight or civil institutions to volatile land can lead to this.https://twitter.com/juchemane/status/922931406296244226 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted nick
People warned FB about this for years. Dropping mass connectivity without oversight or civil institutions to volatile land can lead to this.https://twitter.com/juchemane/status/922931406296244226 …
zeynep tufekci added,
No it’s not *just* Facebook but digital connectivity and Facebook *are* part of this fuel. Repeats historic patterns. No surprise, sadly.
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zeynep tufekci added,
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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 …
zeynep tufekci added,
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+
..+such stuff (just more visible). I mean this: some domain knowledge + history makes much of this pretty clear. Astonishing FB is so blind.
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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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 …
zeynep tufekci added,
Point isn't Facebook could have single-handedly changed everything. But in ethnic cleansings, specifics of propaganda tools matter greatly.
@zeynep I respect your work but these tweets read as if you mean FB to be held responsible for what happened. Is that what you mean here?
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