“Everything is done through Facebook in Myanmar,” Lee said, according to The Guardian. In 2013, fewer than 1 million people in the country used Facebook that number is now upwards of 18 million. Part of the problem is the wide breadth of Facebook’s reach in Myanmar. investigators, these attempts have been woefully ineffective to the point where the platform has actually facilitated the persecution of Rohingya people.
“We take this incredibly seriously and have worked with experts in Myanmar for several years to develop safety resources and counter-speech campaigns,” a Facebook spokesperson said. investigator Yanghee Lee, Facebook’s presence in Myanmar ultimately aided the persecution and possible genocide of the Rohingya people.įacebook maintains that it is working to solve the hate speech problem but didn’t offer any new solutions in an email to Inverse.
Another study of Afghanistan, where Facebook has 5 million users, found even the pages that explained how to report hate speech were incorrectly translated.Facebook has no new plans to address claims by United Nations investigators on Monday that the social media platform facilitated the spread of hate speech in Myanmar.
One 2021 document warned on its very low number of content moderators in Arabic dialects spoken in Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Libya. Here are four surprising revelations the documents contain: Facebook has a huge language problemįacebook is often accused of failing to moderate hate-speech on its English-language sites but the problem is much worse in countries that speak other languages, even after it promised to invest more after being blamed for its role in facilitating genocide in Myanmar in 2017.
The Wall Street Journal also ran a series of articles called the Facebook Files. A consortium of news organisations, including the Financial Times, has obtained the redacted versions received by Congress.Įarlier this month, Haugen testified in Congress that the social media company does not do enough to ensure the safety of its 2.9 billion users, plays down the harm it can cause to society and has repeatedly misled investors and the public. The documents were disclosed to US regulators and provided to Congress in redacted form by Frances Haugen’s legal counsel. Facebook is battling its gravest crisis since the Cambridge Analytica scandal after a whistleblower accusing the company of placing “profit over safety” shed light on its inner workings through thousands of pages of leaked memos.