Showing posts with label Rohinga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rohinga. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

‘Kill more’: Facebook fails to detect hate against Rohingya

NEW YORK POST
Associated Press
March 22, 2022 

Rights group Global Witness submitted eight paid ads for approval to Facebook, each including different versions of hate speech against Rohingya, which were all approved for publishing. AP 

 JAKARTA, Indonesia — A new report has found that Facebook failed to detect blatant hate speech and calls to violence against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority years after such behavior was found to have played a determining role in the genocide against them.

The report shared exclusively with The Associated Press showed the rights group Global Witness submitted eight paid ads for approval to Facebook, each including different versions of hate speech against Rohingya. All eight ads were approved by Facebook to be published.

 

Thursday, February 18, 2021

Is the Myanmar coup a turning point for the Rohingya?

Aljazeera

Inside Story
17 Feb 2021



Many people say they are only now realising the extent of the army’s crackdown on ethnic minorities including Rohingya.