Thoughts with Sri Lanka. Non-Sri Lankan media: please be considerate of your reporting both of images of carnage, and handling manisfestos/etc. of killers. All social media companies need to have extra eyes on there, and urgently hire more native speakers and experts.
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Amplifying. Right now, both international media and tech companies are part of Sri Lanka’s information ecology. The stakes are high.https://twitter.com/sanjanah/status/1119965375980916737 …
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By the way, I’m finalizing these hires this week. Last call. These thorny issues is exactly what we will be working on.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1116427711881330689 …
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Umm, projecting our US-UK-EU specific Facebook worries onto Sri Lanka would be a major disservice to an actual country facing a deep challenge. Please don't. Sri Lanka has a deeply censored mass media and people rely on social media for information. World is complicated.
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Big tech and international mass media is part of Sri Lanka's information ecology and that comes with responsibilities—pointing out the complexity doesn't absolve them. But it's just not a simple case of social media bad, rest okay. PLEASE RESPECT THE COMPLEXITY. Much is at stake.
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For example, read this thread. This isn’t time for knee-jerk “Facebook bad” analyses. Obviously, neither is it all great. The details matter greatly.https://twitter.com/meghara/status/1120312486341808128 …
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At a time when SL authorities have been cautious about revealing info on investigations, the speculation on most international msm coverage has been on overdrive. Silicon Valley & the lack of native speakers to monitor hatespeech on SL social media is another problem altogether.
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Sri Lanka has temporarily banned Facebook and WhatsApp. Police hasn’t revealed identities of those detained in connection to these bombings. So far no news outlet has identified the suicide bombers. A step in the right direction perhaps?
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