Three years ago, the company commissioned a report that found Facebook was used to “foment division and incite offline violence” in the country. It pledged to do better and developed several tools and policies to deal with hate speech.
One account posts the home address of a military defector and a photo of his wife. Another post from Oct. 29 includes aof soldiers leading bound and blindfolded men down a dirt path. The Burmese caption reads, “Don’t catch them alive.” Htaike Htaike Aung said she met with Facebook that year and laid out issues, including how local organizations were seeing exponential amounts of hate speech on the platform and how its preventive mechanisms, such as reporting posts, didn’t work in the Myanmar context.
Years later, the lack of moderation caught the attention of the international community. In March 2018, United Nations human rights experts investigating attacks against Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority said Facebook had played a role in spreading hate speech. “Facebook took symbolic actions I think were designed to mollify policymakers that something was being done and didn’t need to look much deeper,” said Ronan Lee, a visiting scholar at Queen Mary University of London’s International State Crime Initiative.
Facebook crafted a list of “at-risk countries” with ranked tiers for a “critical countries team” to focus its energy on, and also rated languages needing more content moderation. Myanmar was listed as a “Tier 1” at-risk country, with Burmese deemed a “priority language” alongside Ethiopian languages, Bengali, Arabic and Urdu.
The company also deployed a new tool to reduce the virality of content called “reshare depth promotion” that boosts content shared by direct contacts, according to an internal 2020 report. This method is “content-agnostic” and cut viral inflammatory prevalence by 25% and photo misinformation by 48.5%, it said.
Opposition and pro-military groups have used the encrypted messaging app Telegram to organize two types of propaganda campaigns on Facebook and Twitter, according to an October report shared with the AP by Myanmar Witness, a U.K.-based organization that archives social media posts related to the conflict.
They don't give a shit means of dollars to them that's it
'We fucking do not,' responded Facebook.
What does this report have anything to do with China 🇨🇳?
Reason 8,912 why FacebookSucks
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Great example of how Facebook/meta doesnt care about users. Here how they try to trick users into clicking 'allow all cookies'
If my platform had helped precipitate a genocide in Myanmar, that would be a top priority place for not having more genocides. I’m just saying.
Facebook is having the same problem in the US & everywhere else on the planet. Curious 🤔
Hate speech or free speech? They want Facebook to shut it down!
Meta continues deliberately to have problems
It thrives on twitter
Facebook knows exactly what they are doing.
It thrives everywhere.
What does Myanmar and USA have in common? They both rigged their own elections and now facing the punishment
USA too.
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