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In the aftermath of the online misinformation, over 10,000 people were killed and at least 725,000 Rohingya fled to neighbouring Bangladesh by September 2018. One of the most dangerous campaigns, according to the lawsuit, came in 2017 when “ the military’s intelligence arm spread rumours on Facebook to both Muslim and Buddhist groups that an attack from the other side was imminent.
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”Īnother post in 2018, showed a photo of a boat full of Rohingya refugees, that said: “Pour fuel and set fire so that they can meet Allah faster.” It cited several Facebook posts reported by Reuters, as early as 2013, that said: “We must fight them the way Hitler did the Jews, damn Kalars. The lawsuit said Facebook Messenger was used for spreading similar but conflicting chain messages to Muslim and Buddhist communities, inciting communal violence in the region in early September 2017. The refugees accused Facebook of “willing to trade the lives of the Rohingya people for better market penetration in a small country in Southeast Asia.” In the span of this decade, human rights abuses and sporadic violence turned into terrorism and mass genocide, said the lawsuit.
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While the Rohingya have long been persecuted in Myanmar, the lawsuit said the introduction of Facebook into the country in 2011 “contributed to the development and widespread dissemination of anti-Rohingya hate speech, misinformation, and incitement of violence.” Lawyers in the UK have also submitted a letter of notice to Facebook’s London office in a coordinated effort, Reuters reported. The refugees are suing the social media company for “compensatory damages, in excess of $150bn, in addition to punitive damages in an amount to be determined at trial” for promoting violence against the community. Rohingya refugees in the US and UK are suing Facebook for more than $150bn (£113bn), accusing the social media giant of allowing the spread of hate speech and dangerous misinformation against the community.įacebook allowed hate speech to fester in Myanmar for years, long after it was informed of the genocide perpetrated against the country’s persecuted minority, according to the lawsuit that was filed on Monday in San Francisco, on behalf of an estimated 10,000 Rohingya people in the US. Internally displaced Rohingya walk at a market area in the Baw Du Pha IDP Camp in Sittwe in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state - AFP via Getty Images