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Here's A Weapon. Do What You Want With It
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Another way to examine whether the tech bro attitude of unleashing technology with no concern over how it can be used for evil is in this article about how Facebook's openness to spreading fake news is being exploited around the world to cause unrest. There are many countries new to technology, new to free speech, new to the idea that what's on the Internet may or may not be true. In countries like that, posting a known falsehood doesn't necessarily lead to corrective measures; when there's sectarian strife, people will believe whatever reinforces their hatred of the other side. The result can be seen in places like Sri Lanka, where riots were fueled by Facebook posts. Facebook was practically built to facilitate that. And it's a problem the people who run Facebook (and Twitter, and any other social medium) didn't think about or didn't care about. (New York Times)
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