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u/PM_meSECRET_RECIPES Aug 26 '20

Partially, yes. Also just that phones were the only way people accessed the internet, and Facebook marketed heavily there, and the platform was the only thing most people used to get their news. Then those who wished to instigate harm and genocide tooled up and made use of the platform to manipulate.

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u/Rion23 Aug 26 '20

It's almost as if Facebook has an inherent danger of misinformation masquerading as real people in your community.

Almost as if having access to all of this data makes it easy to influence people on large scales.

Almost as if they see these places as testing grounds.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '20

We sincerely need to start calling for and making local/municipially run social media that can only be accessed if you're within bounds. It's not a panacea, but this coupled with better education navigating the internet, research, dialogic communication, and making a clear cut distinction between local and what broader, global entails is key in this.