Two Ethiopians are suing Facebook parent Meta, accusing the company of allowing hate speech to flourish amid their country’s deadly ethnic conflict in the Tigray region. The suit, filed in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, alleges Facebook is violating the Kenyan Constitution and demands more than $2 billion in restitution, per NBC News. The plaintiffs say Facebook, which launched a hub in Nairobi in 2019, devotes far fewer resources to content moderation than in the U.S., allowing lethal misinformation to go viral during Ethiopia’s civil war. “He didn’t get the choice to clarify the hate speech and disinformation. Facebook said in a November 2021 news release that Ethiopia was “an especially challenging environment ... because there are multiple languages spoken in the country.”AdvertisementAmnesty International said Facebook’s failure to police hate speech isn’t confined to Africa.

Source: Ethiopian News December 14, 2022 20:42 UTC