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Digital persecution: Deadly rumours on WhatsApp, a ‘Panopticon’ of censorship, the corrosion of trust, and China’s spreading surveillance state

Matters of Life and Death

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The Power of the Mob

The power of the mob where you gather together a hundred people and somehow as a kind of a morphous organism they're able perpetrating terrible things. You get these online mobs that are tragically can have real-world consequences. The most infamous would be actually didn't target Christians but Muslims and Rohingya Muslims living in one of the minorities in in Burma and Myanmar who many outside of the Bible said have really been suffering a genocide by large part whipped up online on Facebook.

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