A large number of people have been desperately pleading with Facebook for many years to hire more informed staff for every global south country with a conflict potential. It just didn’t happen. Please don’t ever let them say they were blindsided. It’s such a long-standing issue.
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Don’t take “we were blindsided” as an answer. Many people & groups have been pleading with Facebook for years. It’s not that Facebook is 100% responsible for everything. It’s that they’ve been gravely negligent in what they *could* do. At least try.https://twitter.com/jodikantor/status/988024024805625856 …
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None of this works in Sri Lanka or India or Myanmar or a large number of countries. It doesn't even work in the United States. What happens at a key player in the information ecology affects *everyone* regardless of what you personally do. https://twitter.com/WillardRe/status/988031403966296069 …
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It's not like Myanmar or Sri Lanka was a peaceful EU country and then *boom*. But it's still massively consequential to introduce a mass information conduit that operates the way Facebook does into a place with simmering ethnic tensions. This is playing out in multiple countries.
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Does that count as "connecting people?"
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Ignorant. Chilling. Unacceptable. Has anyone victims / survivors / family tried litigation?
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Every age has its own medium, and it matters greatly. Facebook ups speed and spread. It’s like introducing phones to a letter-writing society. It just doesn’t function the same anymore even if you still have mail. Whatever is fast and wide transforms society—like radio did.
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In India, it's complicated by the fact that many of these rumors are spread via WhatsApp, which keeps messages within private groups. How could those ever be policed?
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Anyone remember MySpace? Asking for a friend...
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