When Data Science Destabilizes Democracy and Facilitates Genocide
Oh please.<p>This article is completely correct of course. But there is zero hope that it&#x27;ll be taken seriously at all.<p>Just the other day, here on HN someone seriously proposed the idea that hate speech doesn&#x27;t lead to violence against minorities[1]. I pointed at the Rwanda genocide, and got voted down (a lot), because the OP claimed that 10% of deaths didn&#x27;t prove my point. Then I pointed out that was at least 60,000 deaths, and that was downvoted too.<p>Enough people clearly want to ignore things which disagree with their world view that there is zero chance that this destabilising behaviour will stop.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15936785" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15936785</a>