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Myanmar military officials were behind a systematic campaign on Facebook to target a mostly Muslim Rohingya minority, an investigation by The New York Times found.
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This has led to the suppression of free speech violence and hate campaigns and self-censorship by women, minorities and other vulnerable members of society. In Myanmar, the prevalence of hate speech, disinformation and bad actors on Facebook “has had a negative impact on freedom of expression, assembly and association for Myanmar’s most vulnerable users,” the report says. In India’s recent elections, some WhatsApp messages were used to incite tensions while others were found to be false. WhatsApp has begun to play a leading role in elections, particularly in developing countries where it is being used by political parties, religious activists and others to spread information. New problems could also arise related to WhatsApp, the messaging app owned by Facebook that is becoming popular in Myanmar. The report warns that this could continue to be a problem for Facebook, especially during the country’s general elections in 2020.
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Many citizens in Myanmar, the report says, still do not know the basics of the internet - from using a browser to setting up an email account - and are not equipped to distinguish real information from rumor. “There are a lot of people at Facebook who have known for a long time that the company should have done more to prevent the gross misuse of its platform in Myanmar,” said Matthew Smith of Fortify Rights, a nonprofit human rights organization that focuses on Southeast Asia. Human rights groups said Facebook’s pledge needed to be followed up with more concrete actions. Facebook is being sued by a transatlantic team of Rohingya refugees for over 150billion (around £113bn) amid claims the platform allowed hate speech against the group to spread. Some Facebook detractors criticized the company on Tuesday for releasing the report on the eve of the midterm elections in the United States, when the attention of the news media and many of Facebook’s most vocal critics was elsewhere. The report recommends that Facebook increase enforcement of policies for content posted on its platform exercise greater transparency with data that shows its progress and engage with civil society and officials in Myanmar. The report details how Facebook unwittingly entered a country new to the digital era and still emerging from decades of censorship, all the while plagued by political and social divisions.īut the report fails to look closely at how Facebook employees missed a crescendo of posts and misinformation that helped to fuel modern ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.