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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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 …
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
This apparently led to only minor tweaks, because it was “too anecdotal”. So here we are.https://twitter.com/metaviv/status/923258160718024704 …
Right - and Facebook are taking all the economic value from this, so they must spend the cost to try and improve it. Alas, nobody else can.
So true
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