Facebook facing mounting legal fights over Myanmar genocide

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Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. is facing mounting legal challenges by Rohingya refugees who blame the social media company for inciting genocidal violence in 2017 against the Muslim minority in Myanmar.

The company allowed an “out-of-control spread of anti-Rohingya content” despite repeated warnings from civil society groups and human rights activists about its deadly consequences, according to a complaint filed Monday in state court in California.

“The last five years, and in fact just the last five months, have made it abundantly clear that Facebook’s path to promote the very worst of humanity was not the result of a bug but rather a carefully designed feature,” according to the complaint in San Mateo County Superior Court, near where Meta is based.

On Thursday, 16 Rohingya young people and advocates in a refugee camp in Bangladesh plan to submit a complaint against Facebook to Ireland’s Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, arguing its social network incited violence against their community. Facebook instituted reforms after a company-commissioned study in 2018 found that its platform was being used to co-ordinate violent repression in Myanmar.

 

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