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Two innocent men have been burned alive by a massive lynch mob after WhatsApp rumours branded them child abductors.
A large crowd gathered outside the police station after rumours spread about the two men.
A mob dragged two men out of a police station, savagely beat them and then set them on fire, killing them, after a false rumour was spread on WhatsApp about the pair being child kidnappers.
The mother of one of the men made a desperate plea for the crowd to stop as she watched the lynching unfold on a Facebook livestream.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-46145986
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by Thexalon on Wednesday November 14 2018, @06:19PM
Here's how:
1. Social media contents are completely under the control of the company hosting it, unless you're talking about diaspora* or something.
2. Most major companies can credibly be accused of committing crimes (e.g. tax evasion or falsely reporting numbers to investors).
So the government goes to those companies, and says "Hey, you need to stop allowing XYZ, or we're going to investigate you for your crimes." And they will, because the companies in question aren't in the business of free speech, they're in the business of mining user data to provide better-targeted advertising for other businesses.
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