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As tens of millions of Americans come to grips with revelations that data from Facebook may have been used to sway the 2016 presidential election, on the other side of the world, rights groups say hatemongers have taken advantage of the social network to widely disseminate inflammatory, anti-Muslim speech in Myanmar.
The rhetoric is aimed almost exclusively at the disenfranchised Rohingya Muslim minority, a group which has been the target of a sustained campaign of violence and abuse by the Myanmar military, which claims it is targeting terrorists.
Human rights activists inside the country and out tell CNN that posts range from recirculated news articles from pro-government outlets, to misrepresented or faked photos and anti-Rohingya cartoons.
[...] Zuckerberg told Vox hate speech is "a real issue, and we want to make sure that all of the tools that we're bringing to bear on eliminating hate speech, inciting violence, and basically protecting the integrity of civil discussions that we're doing in places like Myanmar, as well as places like the US that do get a disproportionate amount of the attention."
Source: When Facebook becomes 'the beast': Myanmar activists say social media aids genocide
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @06:25PM
Every dollar is blood money. There are no degrees of separation. There are no innocents. The whole pool is contaminated. So, until you vote out the killers here in the west that feed the tyrants for personal profit (and their own safety from organized criminals), you should keep your mouth shut about what other people do!
Everything facebook has was given to them on a silver platter, same goes for the power of your governments. If you don't like what they do, then stop supporting them! Just stop it! [youtube.com]