Facebook Has Been a Disaster for the World
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/opinion/facebook-democracy.html
How much longer are we going to allow its platform to foment hatred and undermine democracy ? For years, Myanmar’s military used Facebook to incite hatred and genocidal violence against the country’s mostly Muslim Rohingya minority group, leading to mass death and displacement. It took until 2018 for Facebook to admit to and apologize for its failure to act. Two years later, the platform is, yet again, sowing the seeds for genocidal violence. This time it’s in Ethiopia, where the recent (...)