ArrowRight Abrham Meareg Amare claims in the lawsuit that his father, Meareg Amare Abrha, a Tigrayan professor, was gunned down in November 2021 after he was targeted on Facebook with hateful and inaccurate posts. The legal filing also claims that Meta underinvests in content moderation in countries in Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. Meareg is bringing the lawsuit along with at least another Ethiopian researcher and a Kenyan civil society group, the Katiba Institute. When TPLF forces attacked an Ethiopian military base in Tigray, Abiy, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, launched a military offensive. A lawsuit attempting to hold Meta responsible for spreading hate speech and misinformation against the Rohingya was filed in federal court in California last year.

Source: Ethiopian News December 14, 2022 00:18 UTC