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The Verge

JANUARY 25, 2021

Interviews with current and former employees, plus leaked screenshots of internal deliberations, paint a portrait of a company that is justly proud of its role in promoting privacy while also willfully dismissing concerns over the potential misuses of its service. “It’s not only that Signal doesn’t have these policies in place.

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Engadget

MARCH 18, 2025

A former United Nations diplomat, she had aspirations of helping Facebook boost its standing on the global stage. This policy applied not only to internal meetings with others at Facebook, but heads of state. She later concludes that when it came to Myanmar, those people just didnt matter to him.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The files contain a wealth of documents describing the company’s internal research, its efforts to promote users’ safety and well-being, and its struggles to remain relevant to a younger audience. But even the United Nations supports only six official languages ; Facebook has native speakers moderating posts in more than 70.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Stoic parents told her she was fine; in fact, she was bleeding internally and had to beg to go to the hospital, where her blood pressure was so low they had to use a bone saw for the transfusion. The UN has traced Myanmar's 2017 genocide to Facebook posts which the company belatedly took down.) Back in the U.S.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Facebook is planning for possible chaos around the November 3rd US presidential election with internal tools it’s used before in countries like Sri Lanka and Myanmar, The Wall Street Journal reported. Facebook’s handling of violent hate speech against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar several years ago was widely criticized.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

By the time it’s all over, Donald Trump will be president, and Facebook’s halting response triggers an international reckoning over the size and power of technology platforms. Facebook first discovered GRU activity in March 2016, according to a postmortem circulated internally the following year. Let’s pass a national privacy law.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2020

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.” Matthew Smith / Time ).

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

Yesterday I included a link to a story in Time about a request from the Gambian government to help investigate the genocide in Myanmar , where the United Nations has said Facebook contributed to the incitement of violence.

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

In 2017, somewhere at the peak of Facebook’s self-regard, Mark Zuckerberg shared a vision of his social network as a kind of quasi-government that sits between social institutions and actual governments: Our world is more connected than ever, and we face global problems that span national boundaries. Executives reportedly ignored it.)

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