The Myanmar Rohingya ethnic cleansing (2016-2018) was fueled by Facebook algorithms that spread conspiracy theories and hate speech against the Rohingya minority; Facebook executives were unaware of the harm because they had only a handful of humans to monitor millions of users, none of whom spoke Burmese, so the algorithms' promotion of hateful content operated completely invisibly to corporate leadership
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Yuval Noah HarariEvidence Quote
“Facebook was basically the internet and in the 2010s the algorithms of Facebook in Myanmar they deliberately spread terrible conspiracy theories and fake news about the rohinga minority [26:26]”
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