PC Culture and a "tism" Mix for Bad Business Practices

To be as fair as we can be with Facebook, they have a policy to hire local. That is, when they go into a country, they hire people that live in that country, and those people work at all level within the company. Outsider are usually brought in to oversee what is going on — but not correct issue. As such, self-policing has never been a priority - but virtue-signalling is.

To clear, the participants are NOT looking to virtue-signal - as say a hollywood actress might - but instead, they go by their college education and the advice of peers. And here is where the problem starts. Silicon Valley by enlarge hires via - for the lack of a better word - "alumnatism"

Alumnatism would be the hiring of individual who attened the same school as you as an important or determining fact.

So, it should shock no one that the level of incompetence shown in this story from Venture Beat is normal — for facebook.

In a blog post, Facebook said the actors behind the accounts include Myanmar’s military, which has been using the social media platform to target the country’s mostly Muslim Rohingya minority group. One year ago, Facebook said it banned members of the Myanmar military, but it seems they found a way around those restrictions.

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Facebook insisted that — despite appearances — it is “making progress” but said it’s hard to ensure its product is not being used as a tool to incite genocide and that further measures would take time.

So you got it? More people are going to die because Facebook doesn't know what to do.

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Facebook admits it’s still being exploited to incite ethnic violence in Myanmar 
https://venturebeat.com/2019/08/22/facebook-admits-its-still-being-exploited-to-incite-ethnic-violence-in-myanmar/ 
Chris O'Brien - August 22, 2019 4:36 AM