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> a giant social network. You know, the one with all of the cat pictures This really doesn't narrow it down. > and later the whole genocide thing and enabling
by paol 1y ago
> a giant social network. You know, the one with all of the cat pictures
This really doesn't narrow it down.
> and later the whole genocide thing and enabling fascism.
Still not helping.
- leosanchez 1y ago> genocide thing I can only think of one social network when I hear that word. Are there others?
- tehjoker 1y agoAs of 2023, it's all of them promoting a pro-genocide narrative, particularly Twitter these days is promoting outright pro-genocide accounts in my feed from people I don't follow, but I think the author is referring to the Rohingya genocide case in Myanmar.
- stdbrouw 1y agoSee https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya-meta-owes-reparations-new-report/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...
- zdc1 1y agoThe funny thing with social networks is they all have both of these cohorts, so long as you go down the right rabbit-holes and engage with the right content creators
- jraph 1y agoRachel worked at Facebook for some time a while ago. She's been consistently mentioning the cat pictures to refer to it in her blog. I suppose this way of referring to it is also meant to belittle it. I assume the "the whole genocide thing and enabling fascism" part is more a dig than something to narrow down.
- grishka 1y agoYeah, might be Twitter, but might as well be Facebook. Though I'm leaning towards Twitter
- stingraycharles 1y agoI interpreted it as the Rohingya / Myanmar genocide and Facebook’s role in it, and the CambridgeAnalytica scandal that (allegedly) enabled Trump to get elected.
- loloquwowndueo 1y agoMaybe she didn’t really want to tell you which one it is :)
- drjasonharrison 1y agoRachel Kroll worked at Facebook. Her work history is not explicitly listed on her blog, but you can find it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13400687 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13400687 https://medium.com/wogrammer/rachel-kroll-7944eeb8c692 https://medium.com/wogrammer/rachel-kroll-7944eeb8c692 https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon16/speaker-or-organizer/rachel-kroll-facebook https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon16/speaker-or-organi...