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It's moved beyond radio now too.

e.g. The Rohingya genocide in Myanmar was fuelled by Facebook's engagement algorithms[1].

In Rwanda, they had to create radio stations. Today, all you have to do is generate clicks for Meta.

[1]https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...



Ah yes, the evil facebook, not at all caused by their terrorist activity.




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