[sheera] facebook s algorithms spread it because it gets a ton of engagement. and suddenly, all these people in myanmar are flooded with anti-muslim rhetoric. and public sentiment strongly turns against muslims in that country. it s really not until a genocide takes place that facebook understands there s a major problem here. the new bombshell investigation exposes facebook s growing struggle to tackle hate speech in myanmar. facebook has now turned into a beast than what it was originally intended to be used. with the arab spring, few really contemplated that the government could make the same use of these platforms, but they did. and that s also what you saw in myanmar. the same mechanics that allowed a post about some state atrocity to go viral let the government suppress those same voices. talk louder than anybody else.
muslims in that country. it s really not until a genocide takes place that facebook understands there s a major problem here. the new bombshell investigation exposes facebook s growing struggle to tackle hate speech in myanmar. facebook has now turned into a beast than what it was originally intended to be used. with the arab spring, few really contemplated that the government could make the same use of these platforms, but they did. and that s also what you saw in myanmar. the same mechanics that allowed a post about some state atrocity to go viral let the government suppress those same voices. talk louder than anybody else. the question is very simple. do you believe that genocide happened here or not? i d say genocide didn t happen.
in myanmar, people are given access to mobile phones for the first time. their phones in many cases come pre-loaded with facebook. so they don t say, i m gonna go online. they say, i m gonna go to facebook. and so myanmar becomes this case study of what can go wrong when facebook enters a country. authorities in myanmar are being accused of destroying the sites of crimes against rohingya muslims. new satellite images show bulldozed villages previously burned down. many of the rohingya have been forced to flee. [sheera] you have these government-backed buddhist monks who start to spread anti-muslim ideology online, saying that there are muslims in myanmar that are raping and looting and pillaging. and people believe it. [sheera] facebook s algorithms spread it because it gets a ton of engagement. and suddenly, all these people in myanmar are flooded with anti-muslim rhetoric. and public sentiment strongly turns against
in 2016, 2017, in place after place around the world, you would see, just like myanmar, these sudden explosions of communal violence. for example, that unite the right rally in charlottesville. just that all of these different far right groups that had never really successfully cooperated suddenly pulled together into this real movement. so there is a white nationalist rally and police are expecting thousands of protesters and counter-protesters. the name of today s rally is unite the right. it s about time! [max] the fact that donald trump is now president was what people initially thought was driving it, but some digital researchers figured out after the fact, that the platforms had played a really significant role in bringing all these disparate groups together through reddit and especially through the facebook groups recommendation feature, which is by far one of the most powerful forces on the internet.
served with fries and a drink, starting at $9. download the app and earn double rewards on steakburgers for a limited time. [music] [yael] all of these social media companies were rising during the 2010s, but people don t always realize just how big facebook was. that company scaled majorly to dominate the globe. i m standing outside the main school in the village of muyungang in rural myanmar. if all goes to plan, this community that has no paved road, piped water or grid electricity will be at the center of a mobile phone revolution.