Their reams of data converged on a breathtaking statistic: Wherever per-person Facebook use rose to one standard deviation above the national average, attacks on refugees increased by about 50 percent.
It’s time for Zuckerberg to go to jail.
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Woah. I gotta read this.
(Long, low whistle)
I suspect the causality is ..complicated. It could be that there are some factors in the other direction—for instance: racist violence is a fringe interest (speaking broadly) that leads to more online-only conversation; or, that racism drives people to talk more to culturally similar contacts, instead of the (more diverse) pool of people around them.
Having said that, I don’t doubt the Overton window-moving effects of bots and propaganda.
Michael Prescott How about we put Zuckerberg in jail first and figure the rest out later.