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?
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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