The case is related to the genocide in Myanmar
Rohingya Muslims have announced they will sue Facebook and its parent company, Meta. The case is related to the genocide of the Indo-Aryan people inhabiting Myanmar.
Litigation has already begun in the United States and the United Kingdom. The lawsuit is for a total of $ 150 billion. dollars. It states that the algorithms of the social network have intensified hate speech and the platform has failed to remove posts inciting violence. In this way, according to the Rohingya, it has helped the mass extermination in the Asian country.
A group lawsuit filed in the San Francisco North District Court said Facebook “wanted to trade the lives of the Rohingya people.” And the goal was better market entry in the small country in Southeast Asia.
The social network appeared in Myanmar in 2011 and quickly gained great popularity. The company admitted in 2018 that it had not done enough to prevent incitement to violence and hate speech against the Muslim minority. An independent report commissioned by her found that “Facebook has become a tool for those who seek to spread hatred and harm.”
The death toll in 2017 during Myanmar’s military operations is over 10,000, according to the medical charity Médicins sans Frontières. About 1 million Rohingya now live in a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, southeastern Bangladesh.
So far, the UK case has about 20 plaintiffs, while in the United States the class action lawsuit is likely to represent approximately 10,000 Rohingya in the country. Meta has not yet commented on the news of the lawsuits.
