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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Apr 2018

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Craig Calhoun

      “... found that Facebook’s newsfeed played a central role in nearly every step from rumor to killing. Facebook officials, they say, ignored repeated warnings of the potential for violence, resisting pressure to hire moderators or establish emergency points of contact.”https://twitter.com/craigjcalhoun/status/987734528218152965 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Craig Calhoun @craigjcalhoun
      Rumor and political manipulation are the matches, Facebook is extra wind to spread the flames. Where Countries Are Tinderboxes and Facebook Is a Match via @NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/21/world/asia/facebook-sri-lanka-riots.html …
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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Apr 2018

      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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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 22 Apr 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jodi Kantor

          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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          Jodi KantorVerified account @jodikantor
          I would genuinely love to know what Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg feel when (if?) they read this damning story about Facebook. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/21/world/asia/facebook-sri-lanka-riots.html …
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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 22 Apr 2018

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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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        4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 22 Apr 2018

          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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        2. Charles Dainoff‏ @CharlesDainoff 21 Apr 2018
          Replying to @zeynep

          It’s not like they have hundreds of millions of dollars just sitting there to hire... oh

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        3. John Berry‏ @aniccia 21 Apr 2018
          Replying to @CharlesDainoff @zeynep

          They don't have that kind of free cashflow sitting there, in those countries and regions. >70% of revenue and likely all FB profit are from <30% of users that are in US, Canada, and EU. Without US and EU legislation requiring it, they will never spend much for safety.

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        1. james‏ @semaj2502 21 Apr 2018
          Replying to @zeynep @amandataub

          You mean like "Foxx News" or all the other Alt-right publications in the USA that lie everyday and our freedom of speech allow them to do just that.? We must "remove the Mote in your own eye before..." All of the Hanging and other terrorism that occurs in our country...

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        2. Mohamed Ikram‏ @ikramof 21 Apr 2018
          Replying to @zeynep

          All what Facebook wanted is money and they don’t know care what happened to society or country. They wanted to attract new users and sell more ads and finally wants to sell all privacy data to third party agents. In near time I gonna say goodbye #Zuckerberg

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        3. walt‏ @lasternucky 22 Apr 2018
          Replying to @ikramof @zeynep

          Let me know where you plan to go. I'll bet you don't last 12 hours.

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        1. walt‏ @lasternucky 22 Apr 2018
          Replying to @zeynep

          How is any of this facebooks fault? People are liars. Period. Who who be stupid enough to believe this stuff? The same people over and over and over again!

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