[Frondo]

They had been warned by locals in both Burma and Sri Lanka for many months that violent rhetoric was spreading like wildfire through users in those countries, and did nothing about it -- seldom even responding to the people pleading for them to do something.

When Sri Lanka pulled the plug on Facebook as violence was starting to erupt, Facebook did then reach out...to ask why their Sri Lankan traffic had dropped off.

This is documented in a variety of places, but for an excellent write-up of these tragedies I'd recommend The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher.

[themitigating]

Well here's a easier way to think about it. Lacking additional evidence of their decision making process either:

1. Facebook wanted or didn't care at all that a genocide was going to happen and happened

2. Facebook cared to a reasonable extent but due to an american centric setup isn't prepared to censor posts in certain areas of the world

Bad? Yes, evil? No big difference