"For example, we would remove posts falsely claiming a candidate is a Bengali, not a Myanmar citizen, and thus ineligible," Facebook said. UN investigators said Facebook played a key role in spreading hate speech that fuelled the violence. The company has long said it works to stop hate speech. Facebook said it was working with two partners in Myanmar to verify the official Facebook pages of political parties. The company took action against 280,000 pieces of content in Myanmar for violating its standards prohibiting hate speech in the second quarter of this year, up from 51,000 such pieces that it took action against in the first quarter.

Source: bd News24 September 01, 2020 04:30 UTC