In Myanmar, Facebook has such a presence, that the word "facebook" was used in place of the internet. Mobile providers gave preferential(unmetered) access to fa

In Myanmar, Facebook has such a presence, that the word "facebook" was used in place of the internet. Mobile providers gave preferential(unmetered) access to facebook, so everyone uses it[0]. At the time of the ongoing genocide of the Rohingya, facebook had maybe one or two people who could speak the local language on staff..[1] Despite it being used by the whole country. The government used FB extensively to spread messages of ethnic hate, about the bad things Rohingya were doing.[2] I volunteered with some young Myanmar students in Japan at the time. They were completely adamant that Muslims were coming across the boarder and attacking Burmese people, and the government was just sending soldiers for security. They also let politicians spread hate in The Philippines (look up Maria Ressa's years of work about this.[3]) We don't need Tech experts running platforms of social exchange, we need them to be run by society experts.. [0] https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/01/facebook-free-basics-ending-myanmar-internet-org/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/01/facebook-free-basics-endin... [1] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/myanmar-facebook-hate/ https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/myanmar-... [2] https://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/dangerous-speech-anti-muslim-violence-and-facebook-myanmar https://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/dangerous-speech-anti-muslim-v... [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed7s4OL65IA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed7s4OL65IA