2022-10-03
Six million silenced: A two-year internet outage in #Ethiopia https://www.context.news/... “It's like they turned the clock back by 30 years,” he said in an email. “People are suffering - but you might not know about it because we're cut off from the world. It's pretty depressing.”
Context
The UN World Food Programme and the WHO say a nearly two-year internet and phone shutdown in Ethiopia's Tigray is hampering aid delivery and health monitoring
2022-10-02
Six million silenced: A two-year internet outage in #Ethiopia https://www.context.news/... “It's like they turned the clock back by 30 years,” he said in an email. “People are suffering - but you might not know about it because we're cut off from the world. It's pretty depressing.”
Context
The UN Food Programme and the WHO say a nearly two-year internet and phone shutdown in Ethiopia's Tigray region is hampering aid delivery and health monitoring
As fighting rages on in Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray region, one of the world's longest telecommunications shutdowns is hampering aid deliveries …
2021-10-27
#Ethiopia: Facebook knew it was being used to incite violence in Ethiopia. It did little to stop the spread, documents show https://cnn.com/... ... documents reveal that Facebook's moderation efforts were no match for the flood of inflammatory content on its platform.
Platformer
Ex-Facebook integrity member says articles on Haugen leaks are based on internal posts and comments, making it hard to assign credibility as names are redacted
A former integrity worker on Facebook's internal “posting culture” and why it's easy to misread the Haugen leaks
#Ethiopia: Facebook knew it was being used to incite violence in Ethiopia. It did little to stop the spread, documents show https://cnn.com/... ... documents reveal that Facebook's moderation efforts were no match for the flood of inflammatory content on its platform.
Platformer
Frances Haugen's documents have been useful to the press and groups opposing Facebook, but reporting should now expand to examine Haugen and her backers' goals
> regulators —> legislation, we're not going to get the outcome we're hoping for. 7/n Joe Bak-Coleman / @jbakcoleman : My concern is that we're going to address “move fast and brea...
2021-10-26
#Ethiopia: Facebook knew it was being used to incite violence in Ethiopia. It did little to stop the spread, documents show https://cnn.com/... ... documents reveal that Facebook's moderation efforts were no match for the flood of inflammatory content on its platform.
Associated Press
Facebook docs detail issues with moderating non-English speech, leading to inflammatory language in Afghanistan, bans on common words in Palestine, and more
but Facebook doesn't have people who speak all those languages to adequately monitor for hate speech and harassment. https://www.cnn.com/... DK Shivakumar / @dkshivakumar : This is...