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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: 3, Touché) by Bot on Tuesday April 10 2018, @02:16PM (2 children)
>Because the present people aren't responsible for that past
so you support neo nazi attempts at building a new and better society, I guess.
godwin in one
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday April 10 2018, @03:04PM (1 child)
I support legal attempts. Getting on Facebook and espousing your views is one such legal attempt.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday April 11 2018, @08:20AM
They are legal, they are controversial because they don't respect the spirit of the law, but the letter of the law is respected.
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