Re:Rohingya sue Facebook for £150bn over Myanmar genocide
by thefounder on Monday December 06, 2021 @03:14PM
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What if they were using Signal?
Re:Rohingya sue Facebook for £150bn over Myanmar genocide
by diveanon on Monday December 06, 2021 @03:16PM
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Signal doesn’t curate feeds and act as a radicalization engine in the name of “engagement”.
Facebook is a blight on society, even in the United States and UK you can feel it’s impact.
Re:Rohingya sue Facebook for £150bn over Myanmar genocide
by p2p_astroturf on Monday December 06, 2021 @06:40PM
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How does some random webshit showing stuff possibly relevant to a user constitute being a radicalization engine? Is this something they could have known at design time? I'm not being rude, I want to know the reasoning.
Re:Rohingya sue Facebook for £150bn over Myanmar genocide
by fault1 on Monday December 06, 2021 @07:55PM
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In this case, Meta was most definitely complicit for other reasons.
- they started operating in a country but had no Myanmar-language human moderation, in a place where FB quickly became synonymous THE internet. - the AI-powered content moderation failed hard on identifying hate speech partially because everything was written in Zawgyi, not Unicode.
It was way after the FB had a lot of eggs on their face that they issued public statements: https://about.fb.com/news/2018/11/myanmar-hria/
They should have been much more proactive, but it seems like it was growth at all costs and ignore the rest.
Re:Rohingya sue Facebook for £150bn over Myanmar genocide
by changoplatanero on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @12:57AM
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facebook also doesn't have any content moderators in navajo or maya. should they block indigenous people from using their native languages on facebook to avoid harming them?
Re:Rohingya sue Facebook for £150bn over Myanmar genocide
by skitout on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @05:08AM
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Interesting question.... but it is a very different case than voluntary starting to operate in a country with voluntary no investment in an ok moderation in the main language spoken there
Re:Rohingya sue Facebook for £150bn over Myanmar genocide
by ChainOfFools on Monday December 06, 2021 @07:30PM
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> website
n-gate reader spotted :D
I was living in Bangladesh while this was happening and ended up volunteering at one of the refugee camps. The people there were very aware that the mobs were being organized on Facebook.
Later while working in Bangkok I had a colleague from Myanmar who’s entire family was murdered as they tried to flee across the border to Thailand.
People have been talking about this for years and Facebook absolutely needs to be held accountable along with the pieces of shit running that poor country.