Rohingya sues Facebook for $ 150 billion for fueling hate speech in Myanmar | Rohingya News

The complaint alleges that the algorithms promoted by the company promote misinformation that turns into real-world violence.

Rohingya refugees have sued the social media giant Facebook for $ 150 billion for alleging that the social network does not stop hate speech on its platform, escalating violence against the vulnerable minority in Myanmar.

A lawsuit filed in a California court said the algorithms promoted by the U.S.-based company encourage misinformation and extreme thinking that turns into real-world violence.

“Facebook is like a robot programmed with a special mission: to grow,” the forensic document says.

“The undeniable reality is that Facebook has been fueled by growth, hatred, division and misinformation that has left hundreds of thousands of Rohingya dead in their wake.”

The Muslim community in particular suffers from widespread discrimination in Myanmar, where they are despised as a troublemaker despite living in the country for generations.

The United Nations says the genocide was a military-driven campaign that moved hundreds of thousands of Rohingya to Bangladesh in 2017, and they have been living in large refugee camps ever since.

Many others remain in Myanmar, where they are no longer citizens and subject to community violence, as well as the fact that the military, which came to power in February, has suffered official discrimination.

The legal complaint says Facebook’s algorithms are pushing more sensitive users into increasingly extremist groups, a situation that is “open to exploitation by autocratic politicians and regimes.”

‘Not enough’

Facebook has promised to step up its efforts to combat hate speech in Myanmar by hiring dozens of people who speak the country’s language.

But rights groups have long complained that the social media giant is not doing enough to spread misinformation and misinformation on the net.

Critics say that despite the hate speech on its platform, the company is not acting.

They accuse the social media giant of allowing falsehoods to proliferate, affecting the lives of minorities and distorting elections in U.S. democracies, where baseless allegations of fraud are circulating and escalating among friends.

Facebook has not yet responded to the complaint against the company.

This year, a major internal leak from a company sparked articles on Facebook, called its parent company Meta, knowing that its websites could harm some of their billions of users, but executives chose to grow above security.

Whistler Frances Haugen told the U.S. Congress in October that Facebook is “growing ethnic violence” in some countries.

Under U.S. law, Facebook is largely protected from liability for content posted by its users.

The Rohingya case, arguing for the defense, argues that Myanmar law, which does not have such protections, should prevail in this case.

Facebook has come under pressure to reduce false information in the US and Europe, especially around the election and the COVID-19 pandemic.

The company has partnered with various media companies, including Agence France-Presse, to verify online messages and remove untrue ones.

But despite the collaboration, they continue to spread hate speech and misinformation on the website.