The monster exists in their people, not Facebook. I’m no fan of the company but it’s not reasonable to say it’s something wrong they’ve done.
Who the hell advocatea violence? Let alone in such large numbers?! Sri Lanka has a deeper problem.
Who the hell advocatea violence? Let alone in such large numbers?! Sri Lanka has a deeper problem.
And it's most effective at amplifying negative ideas and emotions like rumor, gossip, fear and hate.
Of course the root cause is people. But before Facebook, the bad stuff was slow to spread, and geographically localized.
Facebook released an accelerant, a catalyst into the world. And Facebook has lost control of the monster it created.
Very few items could fill in this blank to make a true statement:
"Every human should be trusted with unrestricted and amplified _____________."
If you create a superhuman thing and release it into the world, you damn well better control it.