Amnesty International said in a report that Facebook should pay retribution to the millions of Rohingya forced from their homes in Myanmar in a campaign fueled by online hate speech.
According to international media, the Rohingya, a predominantly Muslim minority, were targeted by Myanmar’s military rulers in 2017 and driven into neighboring Bangladesh, where they live in sprawling refugee camps.
Victims’ associations and rights advocates say Facebook’s algorithms exacerbate the violence, saying they run extremist content that encourages harmful information and hate speech.
“Many Rohingyas have tried to report anti-Rohingya content through Facebook’s ‘report’ function” but to no avail, Amnesty said in its report, allowing the hateful narrative to spread and become unprecedented in Myanmar. Allowed to reach the audience.
He noted the revelations of the whistleblower “Facebook Papers” that emerged in October 2021, which showed that company executives knew the site had spread toxic content against ethnic minorities and other groups. It has been done.
Three lawsuits have been filed against Facebook by Rohingya representatives in the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as with the OECD group of developed economies under the Guidelines for Responsible Business Conduct.
