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[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 117 points 6 months ago

I think it has more to do with how not taking violent threats seriously enough has led to escalation into real world violence.

Say cunt and whatever but this is a pretty tone deaf post in a world where the Myanmar Genocide, enabled significantly by Facebook's lax moderation practices, is ongoing.

[-] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 84 points 6 months ago

In case Im not the only one who's heard of this for the first time:

“In 2017, the Rohingya were killed, tortured, raped, and displaced in the thousands as part of the Myanmar security forces’ campaign of ethnic cleansing. In the months and years leading up to the atrocities, Facebook’s algorithms were intensifying a storm of hatred against the Rohingya which contributed to real-world violence,” said Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General.

From: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya-meta-owes-reparations-new-report/

[-] DrDooom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 6 months ago

You're not alone. It rung a bell somewhere in the back of my head, but I couldn't remember pretty much anything about it and was about to search it up myself.

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