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by DyslexicAtheist 1939 days ago
turn the tables to consider actual reality: if a country like the US would be at the receiving end of meddling and influence by a Myanmar social media business at the scale of facebook, then any key-employee of the company would have been declared a terrorist, taken to black sites or murdered by drones. That's about the level of hypocrisy that we deal with when discussing Facebook's actions in Myanmar over the past years.

It's horrible injustice Americans not only get away with war crimes and aren't held accountable by the IIC, but also technocrats and buerocrats working for these public companies are able to do so with impunity.

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Facebook's "interference" in Myanmar consists of hosting comments supportive of the government whilst it was committing genocide and being criticised internationally for not intervening, and choosing to take down a single government propaganda outlet after a military coup.

Facebook has "interfered" more against the interests of sitting US presidents without a single black ops operation against its staff.