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> a giant social network. You know, the one with all of the cat pictures

This really doesn't narrow it down.

> and later the whole genocide thing and enabling fascism.

Still not helping.



Rachel Kroll worked at Facebook. Her work history is not explicitly listed on her blog, but you can find it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13400687

https://medium.com/wogrammer/rachel-kroll-7944eeb8c692

https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon16/speaker-or-organi...


The funny thing with social networks is they all have both of these cohorts, so long as you go down the right rabbit-holes and engage with the right content creators


Rachel worked at Facebook for some time a while ago. She's been consistently mentioning the cat pictures to refer to it in her blog.

I suppose this way of referring to it is also meant to belittle it.

I assume the "the whole genocide thing and enabling fascism" part is more a dig than something to narrow down.


Yeah, might be Twitter, but might as well be Facebook. Though I'm leaning towards Twitter


I interpreted it as the Rohingya / Myanmar genocide and Facebook’s role in it, and the CambridgeAnalytica scandal that (allegedly) enabled Trump to get elected.


Maybe she didn’t really want to tell you which one it is :)


> genocide thing

I can only think of one social network when I hear that word. Are there others?


As of 2023, it's all of them promoting a pro-genocide narrative, particularly Twitter these days is promoting outright pro-genocide accounts in my feed from people I don't follow, but I think the author is referring to the Rohingya genocide case in Myanmar.





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