[Randosaurus]

People often get things backwards.

If an entire village is razed to the ground then whatever led up to that is wrong, period. What people get backwards is thinking that if the actions that led up to the razing were themselves not ethically problematic, then the result has no bearing on whether or not we should continue allowing said actions.

Then there's the fact that actual FB employee's have gone on record that FB is making things worse in Ethiopia. Or aren't we allowed to take that into account when condemning FB?

Discounting this as being simply "he said/she said" is itself ethically dubious.

[missedthecue]

"If an entire village is razed to the ground then whatever led up to that is wrong, period"

This is where we fundamentally disagree then. I think perfectly innocent things can contribute to deadly consequences.

For instance, Timothy McVeigh rented a moving truck and filled it with fertilizer to blow up Oklahoma City. But I don't think renting moving trucks or buying farming essentials are morally wrong.

I also don't think that posting on Facebook or Facebook algorithmically promoting posts that gain traction is wrong.

Like I said in my original comment, the worst thing you can say about Facebook here is that they're not picking sides in a messy ethnic conflict happening in a foreign country.