Disconnected

Social Media, the Smartphone, and Genocide


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Has Facebook's mantra of 'Move Fast & Break Things' broken things beyond repair in Myanmar? 
Facebook's smartphone app is so popular in Myanmar, that the word Facebook & Internet are used interchangeably.  Hate speech towards a minority group grew on the platform, as did mob killings on the minority group.  Today, some would call what's going on in Myanmar as genocide.  Estimations of up to 25,000 deaths and a million people fleeing to neighouring countries.  To what level did Facebook & the Smartphone have to play in this, and could things have been done differently? 

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DisconnectedBy Jag Sharma