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Facebook’s meta complicity in the Rohingya genocide - ABC Religion & Ethics

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Facebook is facing twin legal actions for its instrumental role in accelerating racial violence and genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar over the past decade. Filings in California and London present an extraordinary story of recklessness, enablement, and negligence. This story fits into a much longer historical arc of the co-dependence between genocidal regimes and media in gross human rights violations. It also complicates that arc in interesting and dangerous ways.

Share Facebook X (formerly Twitter) Facebook, the meta communications platform of our time, is facing twin legal actions for its instrumental role in accelerating racial violence and genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar over the past decade. Filings in California and London present an extraordinary story of recklessness, enablement, and negligence. From the company’s brazen 2011 entry into the fragmented nation, where less than one per cent of the population was online , to the massive jump in hate speech after Facebook launched its “Free Basics” service in 2016, to delay a

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