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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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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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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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 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Patrick Heemstra
Hmm. Fascist filmmakers invented much of the craft of filmmaking. Content and methods aren’t cleany separated there.https://twitter.com/patrick23dingen/status/923576331836837889 …
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Honestly, no easy answers to what could be done. Plea is for all this to be political & corporate highest priority.https://twitter.com/rhornik/status/923580308288569345 …
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We’re rapidly undergoing a huge historical transformation—need to develop cultural, political & institutional antibodies as fast as we can.
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Couldn’t agree with you more. This must become a public policy priority now. Not just green-washing lip service and philanthropy
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