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Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-14 at 05:01

On one hand, I think it's incredibly important to read about what Meta did in Myanmar (please see @kissane's excellent series: https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-full-series). It's a history people should know.

On the other hand, a lot of people have heard at least the tl;dr version, yet choose to remain on platforms that enable hate-bait loops.

I think that's because it's a history many people have difficulty relating to their own comparatively mundane daily online experience. But it is deeply related.

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Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-14 at 05:03

Hate is a continuum of horrible things. Once a group of people is dehumanized, perpetrators of hate will do things that range from "well, that person just doesn't belong here" to the most horrible crimes imaginable.

Platforms that foster hate-bait loops will lead to such dehumanization not only taking place, but being amplified and shared and reposted. (Musk is also organizing his own hate campaigns every day.)

That has real-world consequences, whether anyone observes them or not.

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Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-14 at 05:07

When Meta explicitly adds stuff like "We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality" to its hateful conduct policy (yep, that's in there now), they're opening a door to hate-bait loops that will get people killed.

People may read about Myanmar and think "that couldn't happen here". I think that's bullshit (there is no exceptionalism), but it's also not the only question. The question we should be asking, wherever we are, is: what could happen here, as a result of this? What will?

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Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-14 at 14:04

I should add, since I mentioned Myanmar, that the crisis is still very much ongoing and not just "history". There are many ways we all can help, including via UNHCR:

https://giving.unhcr.org/en/rohingya/

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