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by kaycebasques
996 days ago
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OK, I think I can summarize the author's argument now: * Facebook had a strategy to cement its role as the center of online life in Myanmar and it worked * Facebook did not properly invest in Burmese [1] language content moderation and there was a proliferation of racist / genocidal memes [2] * A lot of people tried to warn Facebook about the content moderation problem but Facebook did not adequately respond * The timing of a terrible, full-blown genocide correlated strongly with Facebook's increased presence in Myanmar * Facebook incentivized sensationalist content, and racist / genocidal content was an effective strategy for people responding to those incentives [1] Not sure if I have the correct name for the language(s) [2] "memes" in the Dawkins sense |
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