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The Myanmar military and extremist anti-Rohingya civilians used Facebook to incite hate - and eventually violence - against the group, the suit says. In a coordinated action, lawyers in the UK also submitted a letter of notice to Facebook’s London office, saying that they expect to lodge a separate claim in the high court representing Rohingya refugees in the UK and Bangladesh.įacebook, which launched in Myanmar in 2011 and quickly became popular, is “naturally open to exploitation by autocratic politicians and regimes” due to the nature of its algorithm, the suit in California claims. The complaint, filed in California, alleged that ‘Facebook’s growth, fueled by hate, division, and misinformation, has left hundreds of thousands of devastated Rohingya lives in its wake.’ REUTERS And the undeniable reality is that Facebook’s growth, fueled by hate, division, and misinformation, has left hundreds of thousands of devastated Rohingya lives in its wake,” the complaint read.
“Facebook is like a robot programmed with a singular mission: to grow. It said Facebook was “willing to trade the lives of the Rohingya people for better market penetration in a small country in south-east Asia.” The class-action complaint, filed in California on Monday, accused Facebook of failing to police against hateful, anti-Rohingya content on its platform. Rohingya refugees from Myanmar are suing Facebook for $150 billion, alleging that the social media behemoth stoked the genocidal attacks against the Muslim ethnic group. Here’s where the ‘facts’ about me lie - Facebook bizarrely claims its ‘fact-checks’ are ‘opinion’įacebook exec blames company’s users for spreading misinformation Meet the new arbiters of ‘truth’: Inside the hypocrisy of media manipulators, censors who claim to fight misinformationįacebook admits the truth: ‘Fact checks’ are really just (lefty) opinion