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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) by khallow on Friday April 13 2018, @07:52AM
I have a very different prediction [soylentnews.org] over that time frame. My prediction is that by 2100, more than 90% of the world, including the Middle East and the entirety of Africa, will be developed world. That includes a tendency towards democracies and secular governments. The differential fertility of the Middle East and Africa will go away.
In addition, we'll see a massive decline in the number and intensity of wars - the developed world won't significantly war with itself, at least in that time.
To back that prediction, I'll note that over the past century everyone from the most democratic country to all but the most repressive tyranny (that would be North Korea) has been improving the lives of its citizens in the same fashion. There is a modest Western-Islamic conflict, but it is being readily won in favor of the West.
I won't extend my prediction to 2200 because I think way too much will change by then to make demographic predictions useful. In particular, I think it likely that we'll have created abusive ideologies over that time frame that will make our modern hysteria over Islam look extremely misguided. People will believe something. I'd rather it be relatively peaceful and constructive like Islam than destructive and consuming like early 20th Communism or Nazism/Fascism was.