3 ms·
Last paragraphs of the article: >They’d been shown example after example of dehumanizing posts and comments calling for mass murder, even explicitly calling fo
by anon84873628 3y ago
Last paragraphs of the article:
>They’d been shown example after example of dehumanizing posts and comments calling for mass murder, even explicitly calling for genocide. And David Madden had told Meta staff to their faces that Facebook might well play the role in Myanmar that radio played in Rwanda. Nothing was subtle.
>After all that, Meta decided not to dramatically scale up moderation capacity, to permanently ban the known worst actors, or to make fundamental product-design changes to reliably deviralize posts inciting hatred and violence.
>Instead, in 2016, it was time to get way more people in Myanmar onto Facebook.
>That’s next, in Part II: The Crisis.
These would have been reasonable actions that Meta had a responsibility to take.