Facebook Incited Violence Against Rohingas

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The company has just not invested in many of the safety tools. Write algarhythmic screening tools that look for bad or inciting content, they literally do not exist in many languages. They were just making errors right and left. I mean, there their own employees, we could see this in some of the internal documents. Their own employees had to step in and just say, like, guys, youre your string over some of the largest news outlets in the middle east right now,. You got to fix this immediately.

Facebook kicked off the week with an outage and followed that up today with a whistleblower testifying before Congress. The Wall Street Journal’s Jeff Horwitz explains how the company may have misled the public about the dangers of its social networks.

Today’s show was produced by Will Reid, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and edited and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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