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And they should get every penny. I was living in Bangladesh while this was happening and ended up volunteering at one of the refugee camps. The people there we
by diveanon 5y ago
And they should get every penny.
I was living in Bangladesh while this was happening and ended up volunteering at one of the refugee camps. The people there were very aware that the mobs were being organized on Facebook.
Later while working in Bangkok I had a colleague from Myanmar who’s entire family was murdered as they tried to flee across the border to Thailand.
People have been talking about this for years and Facebook absolutely needs to be held accountable along with the pieces of shit running that poor country.
- thefounder 5y agoWhat if they were using Signal?
- diveanon 5y agoSignal doesn’t curate feeds and act as a radicalization engine in the name of “engagement”. Facebook is a blight on society, even in the United States and UK you can feel it’s impact.
- p2p_astroturf 5y agoHow does some random webshit showing stuff possibly relevant to a user constitute being a radicalization engine? Is this something they could have known at design time? I'm not being rude, I want to know the reasoning.
- ChainOfFools 5y ago> website n-gate reader spotted :D
- fault1 5y agoIn this case, Meta was most definitely complicit for other reasons. - they started operating in a country but had no Myanmar-language human moderation, in a place where FB quickly became synonymous THE internet. - the AI-powered content moderation failed hard on identifying hate speech partially because everything was written in Zawgyi, not Unicode. It was way after the FB had a lot of eggs on their face that they issued public statements: https://about.fb.com/news/2018/11/myanmar-hria/ https://about.fb.com/news/2018/11/myanmar-hria/ They should have been much more proactive, but it seems like it was growth at all costs and ignore the rest.
- changoplatanero 5y agofacebook also doesn't have any content moderators in navajo or maya. should they block indigenous people from using their native languages on facebook to avoid harming them?
- skitout 5y agoInteresting question.... but it is a very different case than voluntary starting to operate in a country with voluntary no investment in an ok moderation in the main language spoken there
- p2p_astroturf 5y ago[dead]
- newbie789 5y agoI’d probably watch the details of the lawsuit or read details from news outlets rather than demanding that strangers on this website explain stuff that you can Google easily. While we are just demanding random details from strangers, what are your religious beliefs? I only ask because since you’re a poster here, I’m entitled to ask you whatever I want about any arbitrary topic and get an answer.
- dr-detroit 5y agoThen it wouldn't be anything like facebook since it only copied 1 of the CIA sponsored sexapp's many powerful features. (ABCnews.com)