WhatsApp being used to orchestrate ethnic cleansing in Mynanmar [0], or inciting lynchings in India [1] would be two recent examples of tools that remove barrie

WhatsApp being used to orchestrate ethnic cleansing in Mynanmar [0], or inciting lynchings in India [1] would be two recent examples of tools that remove barriers to communication having unexpected and tragic side effects. [0] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xbbqg/facebook-hired-an-outside-group-to-investigate-its-role-in-myanmar-ethnic-cleansing https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xbbqg/facebook-hired-an-... [1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/20/whatsapp-to-limit-message-forwarding-after-india-mob-lynchings https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/20/whatsapp-...