“... 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 …
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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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