The Verge

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Facebook has designated Myanmar a “temporary high-risk location” after a coup earlier this week, saying it will remove “any calls to bring armaments” and protect posts criticizing the country’s military. According to BuzzFeed , Facebook’s Asia-Pacific policy director, Rafael Frankel, outlined its coup response in a message to employees.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

For all Facebook knew, the National Security Agency was tracking the same Russian accounts the company was seeing, and possibly planning arrests. To them, the situation felt like a potential national emergency. “It That policy was reversed last year.) Let’s pass a national privacy law. It was crazy.

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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. Wynn-Williams worked closely with the companys top executives, traveling around the world with Mark Zuckerberg and former COO Sheryl Sandberg as they met with foreign leaders and shaped the policies that would define Facebook.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 3, 2025

The earthquakes that struck Myanmar on March 28, 2025, collapsing buildings and causing over 2,700 deaths , were a sobering reminder of the risks and the need for preparation. Geological Survey, or USGS, produce the National Seismic Hazard Model. Earthquakes and the damage they cause are apolitical. In the U.S.,

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

Facebook also took down thousands of accounts, pages and groups as part of what they called a “policy expansion,” seeking to limit violent rhetoric tied to QAnon, political militias and protest groups like antifa. But coded messages are harder to discern, particularly by policy teams that have not invested in unscrambling them.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

This gap between our content policy and our values has eroded our effectiveness in combating hate and racism on Reddit; I accept full responsibility for this. [.]. Carman writes: Boss-Moms is one of many Facebook groups grappling with inadequate moderation policies as members attempt to discuss Black Lives Matter. The Ratio. ??

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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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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2020

Enforcement of those misinformation policies has sometimes lagged behind the companies’ public statements, though. In 2020, this is what successful content policy looks like: you can’t prevent every bad thing from ever being uploaded, but you can identify it quickly and take effective action. Matthew Smith / Time ).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

would collect compensation from the sale of TikTok, forced by the president’s orders last month that the popular video streaming app represents a national security threat because its parent company is Chinese. [.]. Facebook rolled out a series of changes ahead of the election in Myanmar on November 8th. Trump believes that the U.S.

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