Facebook fails to detect hate ads against Rohingya
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Hate speech against Rohingyas
A new report has found that Facebook failed to detect blatant hate speech and calls to violence against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority. This is years after such behavior was found to have played a determining role in the genocide against them.
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Rights group stings Facebook
The report shared exclusively with The Associated Press showed the rights group Global Witness submitted eight paid ads for approval to Facebook. Each included different versions of hate speech against Rohingya. "The current killing of the Kalar is not enough, we need to kill more!" read one proposed paid post.
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Facebook's leaky controls
All eight ads were approved by Facebook to be published.The group pulled the ads before they were posted or paid for, but the results confirmed that despite its promises to do better, Facebook's leaky controls still fail to detect hate speech and calls for violence on its platform.
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Fails even a simple test
Experts say such ads have continued to appear and that despite its promises to do better and assurances that it has taken its role in the genocide seriously, Facebook still fails even the simplest of tests - ensuring that paid ads that run on its site do not contain hate speech calling for the killing of Rohingya Muslims.
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Rohingya exodus in 2017
The army conducted what it called a clearance campaign in western Myanmar's Rakhine state in 2017 after an attack by a Rohingya insurgent group. More than 700,000 Rohingya fled into neighboring Bangladesh and security forces were accused of mass rapes, killings and torching thousands of homes.
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US calls it genocide
This week, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the US views the violence against Rohingya as genocide. The declaration is intended to both generate international pressure and lay the groundwork for potential legal action, Blinken said.
