[bvanderveen]

Great! Facebook no longer have to provide content moderation in all the various corners of the world where they could accidentally enable the dissemination of misinformation and hate speech in minority languages. They can simply transform it into English and run it back through the existing moderation tooling!

Understanding foreign culture is about reading automated translations of online comments into your native language. It has nothing to do with putting the effort into learning a language and understanding the nuances and current events and issues of the culture it embeds.

The ESL (English as a single language) speakers over at Facebook don't even need to understand foreign cultures, because they already know everyone in the world needs to spend their lives staring into the Metaverse. So grateful that they are working on the world's fattest pipeline for exporting Anglophone culture to every corner of the planet!