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Re:Rohingya sue Facebook for £150bn over Myanmar genocide by thefounder on Monday December 06, 2021 @03:14PM (#29464985)
What if they were using Signal?
Re:Rohingya sue Facebook for £150bn over Myanmar genocide by diveanon on Monday December 06, 2021 @03:16PM (#29465012)
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 (#29467257)
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 (#29467895)
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 (#29469461)
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 (#29470805)
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 (#29467690)
> website

n-gate reader spotted :D