• YoungSheldonAdelson [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    This is the same website that helped coordinate violent actions in Myanmar against Rohingya people. In Myanmar, Facebook had essentially no non-English language moderation. So the leaders of the violence campaign were posting their plans openly on Facebook and facebook picked it up and pushed it to more people because anti-Rohingya content was bringing in the most ad dollars and platform engagement.

    From Amnesty International;

    It revealed that even Facebook’s internal studies dating back to 2012 indicated that Meta knew its algorithms could result in serious real-world harms. In 2016, Meta’s own research clearly acknowledged that “our recommendation systems grow the problem” of extremism.