Faine Greenwood: Facebook Destroys Everything: Part 1
Some background on the short-lived, democratically-elected government of Myanmar that was replaced by a military junta in 2021.
As this last dismal decade in Myanmar unfolded, one thing has become exceedingly clear: Facebook, in its rush to massively profit from getting an entire country on the Internet in just a few short years, played a key role in the country’s slide into hell. During that blood-soaked period from 2016 to 2018, website’s attention-hunting algorithms pumped vast amounts of ferocious anti-Rohingya content into the feeds of millions of Myanmar Facebook users, and the site failed over and over to counter dangerous hate speech, ignoring pleas from local activists, including some people I knew.
As I have said for years... I never trusted F*c*book. I have a user-id. I originally logged in about twice a year to change the password. Less frequently since they instituted better security. (My F*c*book account was hacked once, back when F*c*book didn't take security all that seriously.
Go read the whole thing. (Hat tip to Tam at View From The Porch: Tab Clearing...)
