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Meta Aka Facebook Sued For 150 Billion Claiming Algorithm Promoted Genocide


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“Facebook is like a robot programmed with a singular mission: to grow. And the undeniable reality is that Facebook’s growth, fueled by hate, division, and misinformation, has left hundreds of thousands of devastated Rohingya lives in its wake,” from the complaint

Meta Aka Facebook Sued For 150 Billion Claiming Algorithm Promoted Genocide

Every day Big Tech and Mass Media make it hard to find out what is going on with the internet. The suppression of information is a danger to all of us.  Social media attempts to shape news and information by over-amplification of disinformation. 

 

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Rohingya refugees sue Facebook for $150 billion, alleging it helped perpetuate genocide in Myanmar

Facebook failed to quickly stop the spread of hate speech and misinformation against the Rohingya people, in turn contributing to the persecution and alleged genocide of the minority community in Myanmar, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in a California court that asks for more than $150 billion in compensation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/07/facebook-rohingya-genocide-refugees-lawsuit/

How Facebook neglected the rest of the world, fueling hate speech and violence in India

In February 2019, not long before India’s general election, a pair of Facebook employees set up a dummy account to better understand the experience of a new user in the company’s largest market. They made a profile of a 21-year-old woman, a resident of North India, and began to track what Facebook showed her.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/24/india-facebook-misinformation-hate-speech/

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