Mental Health, The Bangladeshi State, Culture, and Liberalism — miftah
That for Bangladeshi liberals, “the culture” and “the people” are boogeymen that shield capitalism and the state from any criticism, becomes the most ironic when the topic is mental health, and the impulse of these people is to blame mentally ill people for not seeking help.
Fake OpenAI Ads Appear on Subway: "Yes, We Built a Machine That Tells Teenagers to Kill Themselves… But It Might Also Help Them With Their Homework"
An artist in London plastered fake OpenAI ads inside city subway cars calling attention to ChatGPT's close ties to a series of suicides.
Myanmar: The social atrocity: Meta and the right to remedy for the Rohingya - Amnesty International
Beginning in August 2017, the Myanmar security forces undertook a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims. This report is based on an in-depth investigation into Meta (formerly Facebook)’s role in the serious human rights violations perpetrated against the Rohingya. Meta’s algorithms proactively amplified and promoted content which incited violence, hatred, and discrimination against […]
Anti-immigration AI videos traced to overseas fakers, BBC finds
"Patriotic" UK anti-immigration social media accounts have been traced to Sri Lanka and Vietnam.
More work for your labor-value - The Wobbly World of Miftah's Words
...and more exploitation for your location.
Sold to gangs, forced to run online scams: inside Cambodia’s cybercrime crisis
Thousands of people from Taiwan, Vietnam and Thailand have been tricked into slavery and are unable to leave a ‘living hell’
Beyond Hate Speech and Misinformation: Facebook and the Rohingya Genocide in Myanmar
The case of the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar has increasingly come to illustrate the maximum evil of Facebook and its parent company, Meta. Yet most analyses of this case share a distinctive featur...
Beyond Hate Speech and Misinformation: Facebook and the Rohingya Genocide in Myanmar
The case of the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar has increasingly come to illustrate the maximum evil of Facebook and its parent company, Meta. Yet most analyses of this case share a distinctive featur...
Violating own policy, Meta monetized 19 Facebook pages of Bangladeshi law enforcement agencies
Under Meta's own policy, Facebook pages belonging to government agencies and institutions are not eligible for monetization. Yet at least 19 Facebook pages belonging to Bangladesh's law enforcement agencies were found to have access to earning opportunities on the platform. Under Meta's own policy, Facebook pages belonging to government agencies and institutions are not eligible for monetization. Yet at least 19 Facebook pages belonging to Bangladesh's law enforcement agencies were found to have access to earning opportunities on the platform.
How a fake network pushes pro-China propaganda
The web of 350 fake social media profiles aims to discredit the West, sometimes with garish cartoons.
Silencing the Streets
The 47-page report, “‘Silencing the Streets’: The Right to Protest Under Attack in the UK,” documents that the UK’s Labour government has failed to reverse sweeping anti-protest laws introduced by the previous Conservative government. Instead, Labour has attempted to expand them with the Crime and Policing Bill 2025 and through the unprecedented misuse of terrorism legislation to target and criminalize peaceful protest. The Crime and Policing bill, pending before parliament, is to be debated in the House of Lords in January 2026.
Myanmar: Facebook’s systems promoted violence against Rohingya; Meta owes reparations – new report
Facebook owner Meta’s dangerous algorithms and reckless pursuit of profit substantially contributed to the atrocities perpetrated by the Myanmar military against the Rohingya people in 2017, Amnesty International said in a new report published today.
Fakeclaiming isn't a purely online Western phenomenon. A lot of “pro-social” Bangladeshi monetized vlogger and “citizen journalists” act as if filming random disabled beggars in the streets being able to dodge some obstacles, recognize light or being able to walk after forcibly having their mobility aids taken away is doing some grand justice to “real” disabled people.