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Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Facebook failed to detect calls for violence against Rohingya after it played role in genocide, report finds


Morning Star
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Rohingya Muslim children who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, wait squashed against each other to receive food handouts distributed to children and women by a Turkish aid agency at Thaingkhali refugee camp, Bangladesh, Saturday, October 21, 2017


FACEBOOK failed to detect dangerous hate speech and calls to violence against Myanmar’s Rohingya people, years after such posts were found to have played a determining role in the genocide against the Muslim minority, a report has found.

Rights group Global Witness said today that it had submitted eight paid advertisements to Facebook for approval, each including different versions of hate speech against Rohingya, as part of an investigation. All were approved for publication.

The group pulled the ads before they were posted or paid for, but the results confirmed that Facebook’s controls still fail to detect hate speech and incitement to violence on its platform.

Facebook has been used to spread hate speech and amplify military propaganda in Myanmar in the past.

In 2017, the army conducted a “clearance campaign” in the western state of Rakhine state after an attack by a Rohingya insurgent group.

More than 700,000 Rohingya fled into neighbouring Bangladesh and security forces were accused of mass rapes, killings and burning thousands of homes.

Marzuki Darusman, who chairs the United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar, said that social media has “substantively contributed to the level of acrimony and dissension and conflict, if you will, within the public.”

Experts say that such ads have continued to appear, despite Facebook’s promises to improve and assurances that it has taken its role in the genocide seriously.

“The current killing of the Kalar is not enough, we need to kill more!” read one proposed post submitted by Global Witness, using a slur often used in Myanmar to refer to people of east Indian or Muslim origin.

The eight ads from Global Witness all used language taken directly from a report by the UN mission. Several examples were from past Facebook posts.

The social media platform claims to hold advertisements to an “even stricter” standard than regular, unpaid-for posts, according to its help centre page for paid advertisements.

Global Witness campaigner Rosie Sharpe said: “I accept the point that eight isn’t a very big number. But I think the findings are really stark, that all eight of the ads were accepted for publication.

“I think you can conclude from that that the overwhelming majority of hate speech is likely to get through.”

Facebook parent company Meta said that it has invested in improving its safety and security controls in Myanmar, including by banning military accounts.

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