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Behold the self-destructive power of fake news and misinformation. I imagine something similar could happen today where a fake news tweet/story ignites violenc
by umvi 7y ago
Behold the self-destructive power of fake news and misinformation.
I imagine something similar could happen today where a fake news tweet/story ignites violence between two political/religious/ethnic groups that are on edge with each other.
- not2b 7y agoYes, these kinds of things were key parts of the Rwanda genocide (radio broadcasts urging Hutus to kill Tutsis in "self defense") and the Myanmar ethnic cleansing of the Rohinga people (driven in part by Facebook postings and admitted by Facebook, see https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/06/technology/myanmar-facebook.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/06/technology/myanmar-facebo...