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As tens of millions of Americans come to grips with revelations that data from Facebook may have been used to sway the 2016 presidential election, on the other side of the world, rights groups say hatemongers have taken advantage of the social network to widely disseminate inflammatory, anti-Muslim speech in Myanmar.
The rhetoric is aimed almost exclusively at the disenfranchised Rohingya Muslim minority, a group which has been the target of a sustained campaign of violence and abuse by the Myanmar military, which claims it is targeting terrorists.
Human rights activists inside the country and out tell CNN that posts range from recirculated news articles from pro-government outlets, to misrepresented or faked photos and anti-Rohingya cartoons.
[...] Zuckerberg told Vox hate speech is "a real issue, and we want to make sure that all of the tools that we're bringing to bear on eliminating hate speech, inciting violence, and basically protecting the integrity of civil discussions that we're doing in places like Myanmar, as well as places like the US that do get a disproportionate amount of the attention."
Source: When Facebook becomes 'the beast': Myanmar activists say social media aids genocide
(Score: -1, Redundant) by VLM on Monday April 09 2018, @05:55PM (2 children)
They seem to be working hard to support white genocide in the USA, doesn't seem unlikely that they'd be involved in anti-muslim genocide somewhere else.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @06:15PM (1 child)
Should have saved my comment about wswswswswswswsws for this one. Remember that failbook until recently were SJW darlings. What changed? The working class started organizing protests. Now we see how easy it is to turn an SJW darling into an evil Islamophobe villain. Failbook didn't change. Just which way US Pravda/CIA propaganda twists the facts changed.
SJWs take note: they think they're fighting the good fight, but they should now see that they've been nothing more than lapdogs to the ruling class. For a while it was good for the SJWs to pursue a racist (anti-white) and sexist (anti-male) agenda in the interests of using identity politics to prevent the working class from seeing just how much they're being fucked. Now the ruling class needs more out of the SJWs, and the ruling class has the resources and the goons to single out any SJW that doesn't go far enough and smear them in the national
propagandanews.(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @05:53AM
Your medication only helps when you take it.