Did Facebook have some promise of being a force for good in the world, yes it probably did. But here Sarah Wynn-Williams shows that they were just lucky to be in the right place with a decent idea at the right time. The brass at Facebook are terrible managers, who merely stumble between bad ideas but then have enough money to push them through or to keep going despite their bad ideas.
They had internal reports showing how bad Myanmar was, but it wasn’t a big enough country to worry about so thousands died based on misinformation spreading on the platform. Then Facebook lied to the United Nations investigation saying they didn’t track hate speech, while the author saw a report saying exactly how they tracked it in Myanmar specifically.
If you thought those in charge of Facebook were bad people, this solidifies the point. They’re out for money, and your life and your country don’t matter to them as long as they continue to grow and raise their own profile.
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