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> Should Facebook have been legally obligated to ban those posts? Did Facebook promoted that posts? That seems to be the problem. High hate seems to equal high
by Hokusai 5y ago
> Should Facebook have been legally obligated to ban those posts?
Did Facebook promoted that posts? That seems to be the problem. High hate seems to equal high engagement that equals more money.
If Facebook profited of promoting genocide posts, that is clearly morally wrong. It can easily be also illegal and a felony.
Facebook is not a chat but a curated feed of news. Back when it started it was not like that, but when the timeline became the curated feed then everything changed and responsibility is on the curators side.
- fault1 5y agoPersonally, I think Facebook's largest problem in this situation is that they were overly reliant on "AI" systems to flag hate speech, which is against their terms of service anyways. The problem is that Myanmar up until recently (until after the genocide) wasn't even using Unicode, and Facebook only did the bare minimum to get Zawgyi-text processing up. They also did not hire any Burmese language moderators until it was too late, in a country where Facebook more or less became synonymous with the internet. Meanwhile, Facebook had worked with local phone companies to preinstall the app on phones. So again, I think this was growth at all costs, without thinking about the consequences, until they got enough egg on their face.