NewsThree months after Sri Lanka was rocked by deadly anti-Muslim riots fuelled by online vitriol, Facebook is training its staff to identify inflammatory content in the country's local languages. Ahuja said Facebook was committed to hiring more Sinhala speakers but declined to say how many were currently employed in Sri Lanka. Ahuja said Facebook was working with civil society organisations to familiarise its staff with Sinhala slurs and racist epithets. In addition to government warnings, Fernando told AFP that Facebook users lodged thousands of complaints over extremist content, but were met with silence. But if we didn't block Facebook, the violence would have spread out of control," he said.

Source: Sunday Times June 07, 2018 04:18 UTC