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Rohingya refugees sued Facebook for more than $150 billion, while refugees in the United States and the United Kingdom seek a concerted legal case against the digital giant. According to an attorney representative, Facebook's "inaction and promotion of hate speech, disinformation, and encouragement of violence encouraged the 10-year genocide of the Rohingya Muslims." It goes on to mention a UN inquiry that found Facebook played a "determining role" in Myanmar's genocide of 24,000 Rohingya Muslims.
According to the complaint, the internet giant "allowed the spread of hateful and harmful falsehoods to continue for years, long after it was repeatedly warned of the horrible and deadly implications of its inactivity." Insider reached out to Facebook — now Meta — for comment on the complaint, but the company did not immediately reply. In a 2018 blog post titled Independent Assessment of Facebook's Human Rights Impact in Myanmar, Facebook stated that an independent Business for Social Responsibility report was being prepared "Before this year, we weren't doing enough to prevent our platform from being used to foment division and incite offline violence, according to the report. We agree that there is more we can and should do."
The plaintiff in the case will try to apply Burmese law to her allegations in order to get around Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which shields computer businesses from user-generated material. This distinction, according to Edelson PC, a Chicago-based legal firm that launched the class-action suit, is a "critical element" of the US litigation. Frances Haugen, a Facebook whistleblower who went public with a treasure of internal papers and testified before Congress, is quoted many times in the complaint, making it the second significant case against the social network since she went public with a collection of internal information.
