Over the next two weeks, I'll be publishing a series of four (well, 4.5) posts about Meta's role in the genocide of the Rohingya in Myanmar.
Part I is up now, along with a little meta-post with notes on terminology and sources and ct.
https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-part-i-the-setup
https://erinkissane.com/meta-meta
These posts are aimed squarely at people like me and my tech-world peers—people who work on and care about social technologies.
I've written the series because I think that if we plow ahead with attempts to make new and better social platforms and tools without understanding the industry's recent history in relatively granular detail, we run the risk of making the same mistakes—or of failing to recognize major threats.
The first post deals with Myanmar's ultra-optimistic crash entry to the internet—and outlines many warnings Meta received about its role in worsening ethnic tensions and violence in those years.
@06f01dd0 That's appalling, so glad I dumped Facebook and the bird site! Thank you very much for your work on this. 🙏
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