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by rr808 790 days ago
Looking forward to putting every Meta employee in jail. No one died in Flint. Lots of people killed themselves after using Meta products.
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At least 12 people died from an outbreak of legionnaires disease directly caused by the water conditions in Flint in 2014.
I'm gonna kill myself after reading this comment, wonder what sentence you're gonna get
> Lots of people killed themselves after using Meta products.

That statement carries as much water as "100% of people that breathe air will die."

A few people in Myanmar and a small handful of preteen girls don't matter according to the downvoters. Out of sight, out of mind.
It's ridiculous to blame a decades long ethnic conflict that already had established routes of propaganda through the state on Facebook. You can also see no noticeable increase in violence correlating with internet access.
I'm not blaming the entire ethnic conflict on Facebook. I'm saying Facebook made it worse and, through reckless neglect, contributed to deaths of people that otherwise wouldn't have died.