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cm2012

From my understanding the Myanmar atrocities were mostly planned in private groups and chats by non notable figures, with private chain messages playing a big part.

It's one thing to ban a politician inciting violence. Do you all want FB to monitor all your private messages for keywords, then block those messages?

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From what I've read, the atrocities were largely carried out by the military, who also had hundreds of people making fake Facebook accounts to spread their propaganda.

Monitoring private messages likely wasn't even possible as Facebook staff had just four employees capable of understanding the language.

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