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Photo of a starving girl in Yemen prompts Facebook to remove posts of article

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  1. dubteedub
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    I think this just adds to the mounds of evidence that tech companies and social networking sites are completely out of their depths. They are incapable of moderating their communities to remove...

    I think this just adds to the mounds of evidence that tech companies and social networking sites are completely out of their depths.

    They are incapable of moderating their communities to remove calls to violence, they proliferate fake news, bigotry, hate, and have enabled genocide in some of these countries.

    And when news comes out trying to actually do good like spread awareness of the violence in Mexico, or famine in Yemen, or educating people about the Holocaust, these posts and accounts get banned for breaking some strict posting guidelines.

    The fact is that sites like Facebook are now de facto news organizations and they are ill equipped for that role.

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