According to a popular story in the New York Times , the general use of Facebook “ fuels ” racist attacks in Germany. The story, based on what they describe as a “ landmark ” paper by two University of Warwick PhD students, says that in towns and cities where Facebook is used more than average, there are more attacks on refugees and immigrants . Both the story and the paper say that this is more than just a correlation – the Facebook use itself causes an increase in the number of attacks. …