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in october 2021 ceo mark zuckerberg
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announced he was changing facebook's
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name to meta and expanding its borders
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into the metaverse
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what is the metaverse a metaverse in the
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metaverse
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the metaverse will be the successor to
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the mobile internet the company promises
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a new reality full of avatars and
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futuristic worlds today we're going to
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talk about the metaverse
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i want to share what we imagine is
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possible
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it comes as other billionaires are
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venturing into new realms
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jeff bezos and elon musk have poured
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billions into space projects
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i want to thank every amazon employee
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and every amazon customer because you
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guys paid for all this but as these
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businessmen expand their territories
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there are growing concerns about how
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their technologies are impacting the
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on world 6th
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the group of trump supporters violently
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stormed the u.s capitol building i was
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at risk of being stripped of and killed
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with my own firearm
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as i heard a chance of killing with his
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own gun
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documents leaked by whistleblower
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francis halgen and shone a new light on
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how facebook did little to stop the
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attack like they basically said oh good
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we made it through the election there
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wasn't riots we can get rid of civic
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integrity now
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fast forward a couple months we got the
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insurrection and revealed how the
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company knew it was spread in hate and
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misinformation on a global scale
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from stoking ethnic violence in ethiopia
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to fuel in a genocide in myanmar
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the more we're invisible the more harm
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is done and we've seen this in myanmar
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and we've seen it in india and we're
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living it in ethiopia now
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so why does facebook now meta continue
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to put profit ahead of the safety of its
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users
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this research is not a bombshell it's
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not causal research it's in fact just
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well i beg to differ with you ms davis
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this research is a bombshell
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and as the world follows mark zuckerberg
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into the metaverse
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can we trust it
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facebook's rebranded may be a cynical
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attempt to shift focus from its numerous
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failures it sounds like we made a
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mistake there i apologize for that in
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retrospect it was a mistake we have made
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a lot of mistakes in running the company
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it was my mistake and i'm sorry
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but the metaverse at least on the
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surface promises a new era
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today we're seen as a social media
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company but in our dna we are a company
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that builds technology to connect people
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and the metaverse is the next frontier
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so this was an inevitable sort of next
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step in the evolution of social media
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allowing the virtual physical presence
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of the people that you're connected to
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from around the world to you
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oh hey mark hey what's going on
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what's up
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whoa we're floating in space who made
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this place it's awesome what mark
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zuckerberg is doing is he's trying to
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advance his pocketbook zuckerberg was
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the future once
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now it's vr and he's trying to get into
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it
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more data makes good business sense
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facebook has a very clear business model
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that's driven by the need to gather as
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much data about their consumers or users
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as possible
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but they are fears that the new data we
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create in the metaverse could lead to a
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privacy nightmare
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facebook has made a big deal about the
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fact that it's not going to be doing
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facial recognition on photos that you
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upload to facebook anymore but it hasn't
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said it's not going to do facial
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recognitions in the metaverse
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and so the point is they're building an
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ai driven engine that will be
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manipulating even more effectively
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behavior in the metaverse than
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it's been able to manipulate in in real
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space
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and although generating more data is not
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necessarily harmful it could give
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companies like facebook an unprecedented
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amount of control
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mark zuckerberg holds
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as much or more
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power over
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the connection and communications that
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people have than anyone ever has before
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so long as that business model doesn't
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change meta
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is a much more terrifying version of
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what facebook is in the real world right
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now
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just weeks before facebook's rebranding
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former employee frances haugen released
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thousands of internal documents
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the papers show the potential harm of
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its products harm that could be
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amplified in the metaverse i believe
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facebook's products harm children stoke
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division and weaken our democracy
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the leak suggests facebook knew how
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damaging its products could be and
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ignored employees who had concerns it is
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proven that every time they denied these
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things before they were not just unfair
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in their denials and attacks on
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independent researchers but they knew
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that those people were right
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and that takes it from you know just
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being defensive to being
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deceptive
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according to facebook's own research
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reported by the wall street journal
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their platforms make body image issues
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worse for one in three teenage girls
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none of it came as a massive surprise
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you know instagram harms kids i remember
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telling a 13 year old about it and she
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was like yeah everyone knows that
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facebook may be having its big tobacco
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moment
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in the 90s ceos of big tobacco firms
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stood up in congress and attempted to
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play down the dangers of cigarettes
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yes or no do you believe nicotine is not
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addictive i believe nicodemus is not
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addictive yet
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imagine a world in which cigarettes gave
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people cancer but only the tobacco
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companies knew that and only the tobacco
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companies had any chance of finding out
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in that world i think it would be
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extremely important for someone within
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the companies to come forward and tell
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the world what they know these companies
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have played a very very clever game in
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trying to protect their reputations
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despite the amount of harm they produce
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and that's why now facebook and google
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spend more than philip morris and exxon
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on lobbying in the us
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these deceptions can have dangerous
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consequences
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in january trump supporters stormed the
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u.s capitol building
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the leak suggests facebook failed to
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take steps to mitigate the spread of
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misinformation and polarizing content on
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its platform
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extremists used many platforms but
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facebook is a recurring theme for years
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this platform was allowing itself to be
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used to sow distrust in elections and to
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build more and more anger in these
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communities
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some safeguards put in place for the
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2020 election were rolled back in the
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lead-up to the attack
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they had a whole series of circuit
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breakers as they would call them to kind
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of slow down the craziness that was
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obviously developing
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but late into the afternoon of january 6
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they hadn't even pulled the trigger on
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more than half of them you'll never
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take back our country with weakness you
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have to show strength and you have to be
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strong
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look nobody should think that they
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caused january 6 but certainly
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if it weren't for facebook it would have
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been harder to develop the extraordinary
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organization and capacity that january 6
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revealed
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weeks after francis halgon's revelations
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facebook and its other products
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instagram and whatsapp were hit by a
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major power outage
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it was so bad that the only way facebook
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could let the world know what was going
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on and this is true was by posting a
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message on twitter
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the outage showed how much the world
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relies on facebook for better and for
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worse
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for over a year ethiopia has been locked
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in a brutal civil war in august 28
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bodies some with hands tied and bullet
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holes
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washed up on the shores of a river on
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the sudanese border witnesses believe
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they came from tigrai
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the ethiopian government called the
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discovery a fake propaganda campaign we
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don't know how many have died because we
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don't have a real body count so far but
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it's one of the bloodiest war we've seen
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so far
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facebook knew it was being used to
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incite ethnic violence in the country
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but did little
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more
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we've seen state and state actors using
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the platform to spread misinformation
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and disinformation to an extent where
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you'd have content that's you know
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calling for ethnic extermination of
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certain ethnic groups we know that
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different militia groups were organizing
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using the platform to raise money for
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arms getting many other things that
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would be against many international laws
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a deadly conflict fueled by facebook and
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not for the first time
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the company is also accused of playing a
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role in the brutal crackdown of rohingya
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muslims in myanmar in 2017
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what the papers demonstrate is that the
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government in myanmar used the facebook
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platform to exacerbate ethnic division
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which led to genocide in myanmar
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they're not to blame for
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the existence of folks you know who are
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pursuing a genocidal campaign
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but they did deliberately become
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the engine
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this is a global problem
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in vietnam facebook bowed to pressure
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from the government to censor content
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and in india facebook's platforms have
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been inundated with a torrent of
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anti-muslim hate speech
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part of the problem is the lack of
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investment facebook places outside the
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us
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ninety percent of facebook's audience is
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outside the united states
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but ninety percent of facebook's safety
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budget is inside the united states so
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they are literally incapable of any
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moderation at all
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in many many countries around the world
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and what that means is that hate and
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misinformation are flowing even more
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rapidly in other countries
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for activists the reported lack of
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consideration given to other countries
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came as little surprise and we all have
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to sort of live with the consequences of
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a system that makes us completely
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invisible and the more we're invisible
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you know the more harm is done and we've
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seen this in myanmar and we're living it
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in ethiopia now the cost of them fixing
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their platforms is actually they have to
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hire people the cost of them doing
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nothing is zero and so they've
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calculated of course it's so much
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cheaper
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to let the world burn
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in the u.s politicians are growing angry
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mark zuckerberg ought to be looking at
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himself in the mirror today and yet
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rather than taking responsibility and
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showing leadership
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mr zuckerberg is going sailing but have
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so far been unable to reign in the once
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untouchable company mark zuckerberg has
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proven that he is not the one to be
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trusted
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with dominating the next level which
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will now be the metaverse when he hasn't
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even addressed any of these issues
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facebook might be the winner of the next
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generation too and that would be a
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disaster because the truth is they've
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administered this generation appallingly
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badly
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for many it begs broader questions our
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current debates about
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tech platforms like meta like facebook
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are
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debates about what kind of culture what
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kind of society we want to live in in an
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increasingly globalized world
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that's a more and more challenging
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question to answer
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