The report, titled “A Death Sentence for My Father: Meta’s Contribution to Human Rights Abuses in Northern Ethiopia,” provides a distressing account of how Meta’s algorithmic systems and business practices may have contributed to the violence, particularly against people from Tigray. “Three years after its shocking failures in Myanmar, Meta has once again, through its content-shaping algorithms and data-driven business model, contributed to serious human rights abuses,” stated Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International Secretary General. Professor Meareg Amare’s story was featured on Addis Standard‘s print publication in November 2022, followed by a $2bn lawsuit filed against Facebook’s parent company, Meta, which in Nairobi, Kenya. The report concludes that, through both action and inaction, Meta actively contributed to serious human rights violations against the people of Tigray. Furthermore, it emphasizes the need for states to regulate big tech companies in order to protect human rights and ensure accountability for any human rights violations caused or enabled by these companies, whether through product design choices or a failure to implement proper safeguards.

Source: Ethiopian News October 31, 2023 13:33 UTC