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> Abrham Amare, a researcher and son of chemistry professor Meareg Amare, said that his father was targeted by a series of threatening posts because he was ethn
by hourago 4y ago
> Abrham Amare, a researcher and son of chemistry professor Meareg Amare, said that his father was targeted by a series of threatening posts because he was ethnically Tigrayan. He reported the posts, some of them shared over 50,000 times, to Facebook because they contained his father's address and called for his death. Eight days after the elder Amare was murdered, Facebook finally removed the post, according to the researcher.
Facebook caused the death of a man. If you think that Facebook did just because the posts were "popular". then Facebook caused the death of a man for money, and that makes it worse.
- noworriesnate 4y agoI have a friend and an ex-coworker who work at Meta. I've asked them about things like this in the past, their responses have boiled down to something like this: If Facebook's algorithms reduced millions of micro-aggressions but simultaneously enabled the death of one person, then they're probably still in the green. It's like public policy-making. There are tradeoffs everywhere, and somebody will always draw the short straw.
- p0pcult 4y agoI'll take the world of microaggressions, thanks. There's a reason they're called microaggressions.
- darkwizard42 4y agoIf we are just using words, then another saying "death by a thousand paper cuts" comes to mind. I think the parent has a point. Not sure I agree, but there are many ways to argue for or against.
- p0pcult 4y agoTry recovering from death vs. try recovering from a microagression. One is impossible; the other should have bounced off immediately.
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- Minor49er 4y agoInteresting how the details of the murder are not disclosed, yet the conclusion is that "Facebook caused the death of a man for money"
- gretch 4y agoDid facebook _cause_ it? Or would it have happened anyway? Lynchings have happened frequently throughout human history, long before the invention of facebook. Racism and ethnic hatred have always been there. To me this is like saying 'well the guy who killed him was wearing nike shoes, nike caused his death'. It's pretty clear to me that if he didn't have nike shoes, he would have done the same things wearing any other pair of shoes.
- lostmsu 4y agoNike shoes actually could save your life if you need to leg for it.
- reaperducer 4y agoDid facebook _cause_ it? Or would it have happened anyway? Hair splitting. "Guns don't kill people. Bullets do!"
- tsol 4y agoFacebook allowed them to disseminate information leading to his murder. You can theorize all day about whether you think it would have happened anyways, but that doesn't really add any facts to the case.
- gretch 4y agoThe concept of a controlled experiment is quite important to scientific discovery and obtaining new knowledge. What you just said is pretty equivalent to saying: When the moon is full, there is more murder. Therefore full moons must be contributing to violence. No need to theorize what happened when there's not a full moon, that's not adding any facts to the case!
- jeromegv 4y agoHis fucking address and call for murder was shared 50,000 times. And here you are, parroting the idea of controlled experiment and wanting to discuss scientific discovery. This is someone's life we are talking about. Clearly it is a failure in moderation policy. This type of thing would not have happened in the US.