Then people got mad when too much COVID misinformation was spreading on Facebook. Now they're mad that COVID searches are blocked on Threads.
I don't know what the solution is for Meta. For the rest of us, the solution is why are you counting on them for news in the first place?
As to your question
> why are you counting on them for news in the first place?
I think you know the answer. People use social media as a means to share and discuss a wide range of topics, including the news. You and I are doing it now, in fact!
This is very surprising news to me. What genocide?
https://rsilpak.org/2022/facebook-genocide-and-social-medias...
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/amnesty-report-finds-face...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-...
https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/digital-threats/r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide#Facebook_con...
https://www.google.com/search?q=facebook+genocide
> This is very surprising news to me.
I'm surprised this statement emerged from a UN "fact-finding mission". Regardless of how popular Facebook is in any given location, it's obviously not a factual statement. If Facebook wasn't available, Myanmar people wouldn't shrug shoulders and say "oh well, the internet is down".
Perception need not be a factual statement, but is still relevant.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/10/05/1036479/facebook... ("For huge parts of the world, Facebook is synonymous with the internet.")
https://medium.com/swlh/in-the-developing-world-facebook-is-... ("In the Developing World, Facebook Is the Internet")
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/20/facebook-... ("How Facebook took over the internet in Africa – and changed everything")
https://qz.com/333313/milliions-of-facebook-users-have-no-id... ("Millions of Facebook users have no idea they’re using the internet")
Another one: "Dangerous algorithms". Can an algorithm be dangerous? Too late to debate, the fact-finding says they are. Any posts that counter the facts should be blocked right?
These horrendous crimes are a human problem, not an algorithm problem. Five years on from the atrocities, no member of the Myanmar security forces has yet been prosecuted for their crimes, according to amnesty. So not just a human problem, a legal problem too.
a gathering of people in a online social space is much more likely to be judged closer to a gathering of people in a real world space. an owner of a social media space likely has similar responsibilities—legal and ethical—to the owner of a bar or other gathering space.
1 to 1 communication is a lot easier to get right.
I don't even know what you mean by communication "on" GPS.
> People who want the truth got mad when Facebook was not only not blocking liars and propagandists from lying and propagandizing, but facilitating them.
> Then when Facebook did the absolute minimum they could get away with to encourage liars to stop lying, people who like being lied to got mad at Facebook and lied about what Facebook was doing.