Facebook bans Myanmar general as U.N. calls for independent investigation into Rohingya crisis
Faced with continued ethnic violence in Myanmar, Facebook banned the country’s commander-in-chief, the military’s television network and dozens of pages and accounts followed by almost 12 million people, the company announced on Monday. Earlier on the same day, a United Nations fact finding mission in Myanmar called for an independent investigation of Facebook’s role in what the mission’s report describes as a genocide against the Rohingya ethnic minority, directed in large part by Gen. Min Aung Hlaing. The U.N. investigators found that “Facebook has been a useful instrument for those seeking to spread hate, in a context where for most users Facebook is the Internet” and that the company has been “slow and ineffective” in response to the ongoing crisis. Earlier this year, a U.N. investigator said Facebook’s primary role in directing hate and inciting violence against the Rohingya showed the platform had “turned into a beast.” “The ethnic violence in […]
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