The Verge

AUGUST 24, 2020

In this week’s episode of “should the social network leave it up or take it down?” That’s despite potential human rights abuses that may arise like the catastrophic episode in Myanmar, where ruling members of the military used hate speech on Facebook to promote its real-world genocide of the minority Muslim Rohingya population.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 25, 2015

Now more than a decade into the Social Web, the use of social networks still continues to grow worldwide and will continue to do so for years to come. Myanmar, also known as Burma, is the most charitable nation. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Pinterest are the most regularly accessed networks. Source: npENGAGE.

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Engadget

MARCH 18, 2025

Zuckerbergs desperate attempts to talk to Xi Jinping Wynn-Williams spends a lot of time delving into Facebooks plans to bring the social network to China. She later concludes that when it came to Myanmar, those people just didnt matter to him. Wynn-Williams dubbed it operation perfect sperm.

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The Verge

JANUARY 25, 2021

Marlinspike’s response, he told me in a conversation last week, was rooted in the idea that because Signal employees cannot see the content on their network, the app does not need a robust content policy. It’s often said that social networks’ more disturbing consequences are a result of their business model.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Leaked documents reveal a huge, opaque system At the end of 2019, the group of Facebook employees charged with preventing harms on the network gathered to discuss the year ahead. Facebook set up “war rooms” to monitor the network continuously. Brazil, India, and the United States were placed in “tier zero,” the highest priority.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Facebook (among other social networks ) has tried to preempt concerns about misinformation, election meddling, and potential calls to violence around the presidential election. Its focus on Myanmar comes after military officials used Facebook to foment genocidal violence against the country’s Rohingya minority.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

And while I ultimately come to some different conclusions than the authors do, the book is worth reading for everyone interested in social networks, trust and safety, and cybersecurity. Facebook has since learned that lesson; it has never been harder to set up a network of fake accounts on the network and keep it operational.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

A similar dynamic is playing out on the neighborhood social network NextDoor, where a let-the-users-do-it approach to moderation has left many black users feeling fearing for their safety. Facebook removed two networks of inauthentic accounts in May. Pranav Dixit and Megha Rajagopalan / BuzzFeed ). Joseph Menn / Reuters).

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

The “Tide Pods challenge” surged on social networks in 2018, and ultimately more than 10,000 children were reported to have been exposed to whatever extremely inedible substance is actually inside Tide Pods. Still, Facebook made it clear today that, like other networks before it, the company does consider QAnon a problem.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In August 2019, after the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his jail cell, conspiracy theories about what had happened ran rampant on social networks. The company said it caught the network early, before it had a chance to build a large audience. Nathaniel Popper / The New York Times ).

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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.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 14, 2021

To tech determinists, who believe that social networks uniquely enabled Trump’s rise and were among the primary sources of his power, the past 11 months offered us an imperfect test of that hypothesis. And yet in nearly a year since Trump was removed from those networks, his power has arguably only increased.

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