Re:‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Comp...
by sjg007 on Thursday November 15, 2018 @05:19PM
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Facebook basically fueled a genocide in Myanmar and extreme violence in other places. The whole fake news thing we went through in 2016 was pioneered by Russia to annex Ukraine. Facebook was warned about these behaviors repeatedly by government and watchdog organizations and apparently did nothing to curtail them. So Facebook is this great tool to stay connected to people but at the same time it has been hijacked to cause real harm.
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Re:‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Comp...
by gaius on Friday November 16, 2018 @03:19AM
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Facebook basically fueled a genocide in Myanmar and extreme violence in other places.
If we widen the definition slightly to include other social media firms then the most recent phase of chaos in the Middle East (post "Arab Spring") and the rise of ISIS can directly be blamed on FB and Twitter.