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Is it hyperbole to say that Facebook helped enable genocide in Myanmar? Or that it has been an incredibly useful tool for political propaganda, more so than tra
by salt-thrower 5y ago
Is it hyperbole to say that Facebook helped enable genocide in Myanmar? Or that it has been an incredibly useful tool for political propaganda, more so than traditional media ever was?
They have not done anything to meaningfully address the very real issues their platform has, and are forging ahead regardless to become even more ubiquitous. The negativity is very understandable.
- perl4ever 5y ago>Is it hyperbole to say that Facebook helped enable genocide in Myanmar? I'm not knowledgeable or qualified to judge the facts, but for the sake of discussion, probably not. No more than the thing people always bring up about IBM punch cards and the holocaust. That doesn't make the negativity understandable. I'm not sure what more can be said without triggering an accusation of "whataboutism". To be clear, I think equating any context or comparison of anything with whataboutism is a flagrant misuse of the word, but it does seem to be a popular way to have the last word.