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by _-david-_ 1719 days ago
>they are in fact not doing everything possible to combat the spread of extremism and radicalization through their platform as they claimed

The only way they could claim they are doing everything possible would be by not having a platform or by reviewing every post prior to people seeing it.

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Bingo. So what's wrong with that? Take what happened in Myanmar for example. The government was using Facebook to commit genocide against the Rohingya people. Facebook could have just turned it off in that country. At some point Facebook should just turn itself off. The leaks allege that insiders at Facebook have more or less argued the exact same thing: turn off or greatly tone down profitable features like groups that are routinely misused.