"In response to critics Facebook vows to do more to monitor its users' messages" - future TechCrunch headline. People might want to think about the unintended consequences of their criticism a bit more.
>Facebook is not equipped to respond to hate speech in international markets since it relied entirely on information from the ground, where Facebook does not have an office, in order to learn of the issue.<p>It seems to me that rather than hire a bunch of people in California to try and understand local feuds all over the planet they should have a gamified system a bit more like stackoverflow where if you get enough karma you can restrict posts, promote peaceful messages and so on.<p>In fact someone could offer the anti-hate thing as a service. There's a hackathon/startup project for someone.
This is not a non-story. This is Mark Zuckerberg either lying or not knowing anything about current issues on Facebook. This is not a pile-on or beating a dead horse like all the comments in other Facebook threads are saying about this rash of Facebook stories. Mark Zuckerberg's false confidence/lies about how Facebook is handling the issue of user's private data is sufficient story in an of itself.
I do not see the issue with this letter to Zuckerberg as suggested by some of the comments here.<p>I see the issue as one of Zuckerbergs <i>choice of words</i>, how he is portraying the facts.<p>It was <i>his words in the interview</i> that triggered the letter.<p>FB has now apologised for Zuckerbergs comment:<p><a href="https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/companies/2018-04-06-facebook-apologises-after-myanmar-groups-blast-mark-zuckerberg/" rel="nofollow">https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/companies/2018-04-06-faceb...</a><p>Facebook users and others are paying very careful attention to what Zuckerberg says.<p>Here is a piece that discusses why choice of words can be important, for example when giving testimony before US Congress. There are some provocative examples from past CEOs who have appeared to testify.<p><a href="https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/2018/04/06/what-to-watch-for-when-facebooks-zuckerberg-appears-before-us-congress.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/2018/04/06/what-to-...</a><p>Whether "trust" matters to FB business (selling ads) is another question.<p>Poll: Does FB need to have trust to succeed in the future?