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A comment on Meta in Myanmar, Part II: The Crisis.
* Facebook had a strategy to cement its role as the center of online life in Myanmar and it worked
* Facebook did not properly invest in Burmese [1] language content moderation and there was a proliferation of racist / genocidal memes [2]
* A lot of people tried to warn Facebook about the content moderation problem but Facebook did not adequately respond
* The timing of a terrible, full-blown genocide correlated strongly with Facebook's increased presence in Myanmar
[1] Not sure if I have the correct name for the language(s)
[2] "memes" in the Dawkins sense
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* Facebook had a strategy to cement its role as the center of online life in Myanmar and it worked
* Facebook did not properly invest in Burmese [1] language content moderation and there was a proliferation of racist / genocidal memes [2]
* A lot of people tried to warn Facebook about the content moderation problem but Facebook did not adequately respond
* The timing of a terrible, full-blown genocide correlated strongly with Facebook's increased presence in Myanmar
[1] Not sure if I have the correct name for the language(s)
[2] "memes" in the Dawkins sense