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Interesting. So do you think if Facebook hadn't existed the obvious racial tensions also wouldn't have existed?

by fluoridation 1y ago

Fricken 1y ago
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- fluoridation 1y ago
  Not to the point of one group wanting to enact genocide on another, so that's completely irrelevant, and you know it. If Facebook hadn't existed, would the genocide still have happened? Since you seem to be in a deflecting mood, I'm going to answer for you: yes. If you have one group that hates another, removing a technological means of communication solves nothing.
  - Fricken 1y ago
    The Rohingya claim they've been living in the region for over a millenium, and presumably they were able to go the whole way without getting genocided, up until Facebook arrived, that is. >For years, Facebook, now called Meta Platforms Inc., pushed the narrative that it was a neutral platform in Myanmar that was misused by malicious people, and that despite its efforts to remove violent and hateful material, it unfortunately fell short. That narrative echoes its response to the role it has played in other conflicts around the world, whether the 2020 election in the U.S. or hate speech in India. But a new and comprehensive report by Amnesty International states that Facebook’s preferred narrative is false. The platform, Amnesty says, wasn’t merely a passive site with insufficient content moderation. Instead, Meta’s algorithms “proactively amplified and promoted content” on Facebook, which incited violent hatred against the Rohingya beginning as early as 2012. Despite years of warnings, Amnesty found, the company not only failed to remove violent hate speech and disinformation against the Rohingya, it actively spread and amplified it until it culminated in the 2017 massacre. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/amnesty-report-finds-facebook-amplified-hate-ahead-of-rohingya-massacre-in-myanmar https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/amnesty-report-finds-face... Here's the report: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa16/5933/2022/en/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa16/5933/2022/en/
    - fluoridation 1y ago
      None of that refutes what I said.

Interesting. So do you think if Facebook hadn't existed the obvious racial tensions also wouldn't have existed?

Fricken 1y ago

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fluoridation 1y ago
Not to the point of one group wanting to enact genocide on another, so that's completely irrelevant, and you know it. If Facebook hadn't existed, would the genocide still have happened? Since you seem to be in a deflecting mood, I'm going to answer for you: yes. If you have one group that hates another, removing a technological means of communication solves nothing.
- Fricken 1y ago
  The Rohingya claim they've been living in the region for over a millenium, and presumably they were able to go the whole way without getting genocided, up until Facebook arrived, that is. >For years, Facebook, now called Meta Platforms Inc., pushed the narrative that it was a neutral platform in Myanmar that was misused by malicious people, and that despite its efforts to remove violent and hateful material, it unfortunately fell short. That narrative echoes its response to the role it has played in other conflicts around the world, whether the 2020 election in the U.S. or hate speech in India. But a new and comprehensive report by Amnesty International states that Facebook’s preferred narrative is false. The platform, Amnesty says, wasn’t merely a passive site with insufficient content moderation. Instead, Meta’s algorithms “proactively amplified and promoted content” on Facebook, which incited violent hatred against the Rohingya beginning as early as 2012. Despite years of warnings, Amnesty found, the company not only failed to remove violent hate speech and disinformation against the Rohingya, it actively spread and amplified it until it culminated in the 2017 massacre. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/amnesty-report-finds-facebook-amplified-hate-ahead-of-rohingya-massacre-in-myanmar https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/amnesty-report-finds-face... Here's the report: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa16/5933/2022/en/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa16/5933/2022/en/
  - fluoridation 1y ago
    None of that refutes what I said.