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Evidence is Piling Up That Facebook Can Incite Racial Violence (technologyreview.com)
Higher use of the world's dominant social network has now been strongly linked with more attacks on refugees in Germany. From a report: Greater use, greater violence: Specifically, in towns where "per-person Facebook use rose to one standard deviation above the national average," attacks on refugees "increased by about 50 percent," the New York Times reported today, citing a University of Warwick study. Researchers there carried out a detailed analysis of more than 3,000 incidents in Germany over a two-year period. Crucially, the link held true regardless of the city's size, political leanings, or economic status -- and didn't correlate with general patterns of internet use. Those findings strengthen the case that using Facebook in particular can be a driving mechanism of greater violence.
Greater scrutiny: That's more bad news for the embattled social network, which has long portrayed itself as a benevolent company driven by a mission to draw the world closer together. But researchers recently found that coordinated hate speech and propaganda on the site helped fuel violence in Myanmar. And last year, Facebook itself eventually acknowledged that Russian agents had posted tens of thousands of inflammatory posts -- which reached tens of millions of people -- before and after the 2016 presidential election, in a massive campaign to deepen divisions in the United States.
Greater scrutiny: That's more bad news for the embattled social network, which has long portrayed itself as a benevolent company driven by a mission to draw the world closer together. But researchers recently found that coordinated hate speech and propaganda on the site helped fuel violence in Myanmar. And last year, Facebook itself eventually acknowledged that Russian agents had posted tens of thousands of inflammatory posts -- which reached tens of millions of people -- before and after the 2016 presidential election, in a massive campaign to deepen divisions in the United States.
That reminds me: where is the "Trump is going to prison" Anonymous Coward guy? After the events of the day, he might actually be on to something, and I expected that he would be around here tonight crowing about the Manchurian Cantaloupe being implicated in a crime and names as an unindicted co-conspirator by his own long-time personal attorney.
Ah, these are the good old days.
You are welcome on my lawn.
The mainstream media in many countries is heavily biased to the left - probably because people think you need to go to University to become a journalist, where people are then influenced by Neo-Marxist leftist professors and faculty.
The mass sexual assaults in Cologne during 2015 NYE - the mainstream media deliberately didn't report that until two days after the event!
Plus you have situations like Sweden deliberately not collecting the ethnicity of criminals in their statistics, so as not to paint a pretty picture.
Even on many subreddits, news which paints migrants in a bad light is deleted by moderators. The news that South Africa would seize White farms was deleted by many moderators on popular news subreddits.
Facebook is the only source left in many cases.
You do realise that it was CNN and the left in general who started the whole 'Fake News' thing to explain why Shillary lost the election?