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After Troubles in Myanmar, Facebook Charges Ahead in Africa

Oct 08, 201815 min
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Episode description

Over the past year, Facebook has faced a reckoning over the way its plan to connect the next billion users to the internet has sown division, including spreading hate speech that incited ethnic violence in Myanmar and disseminating propaganda for a violent dictator in the Philippines.

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