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Platforms successfully stopped a lame COVID conspiracy video from going viral

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Facebook is rejecting a request from The Gambia to help it investigate the genocide in Myanmar, saying the request was “extraordinarily broad” as well as “unduly intrusive or burdensome.” But the platforms’ actions on Tuesday showed us that progress is possible. They know how to do the right thing, and they can. Makena Kelly / The Verge ).

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Facebook’s big QAnon crackdown might have come too late

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The Gambia doesn’t have either kind of agreement with the US, and the SCA doesn’t include exceptions for international justice efforts. It’s true that there are lots of cases where we wouldn’t want to see Facebook indiscriminately handing over user data to governments, no matter how serious-seeming the request.

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