AI estimated that “Meta knew or should have known that Facebook’s algorithm systems amplify the spread of harmful anti-Rohingya content in Burma” but “this company refrained from acting”, quoted the AFP news agency.
In 2017, some 850,000 Rohingya Muslims fled a bloody crackdown by the army and Buddhist militias in Myanmar.
“In the months and years that preceded these atrocities, Facebook’s algorithms intensified the wave of hate against the Rohingya, thus contributing to the emergence of violence in real life,” said Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty.
Rohingya representatives filed three complaints against Facebook in the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as before the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
In the complaint in the United States, filed last December in California, headquarters of Facebook and Meta, the Rohingya refugees ask for compensation of US$150,000 million.
For Amnesty it is “absolutely essential” that Meta carry out a “wide reform of its algorithm system (…) because otherwise the drama that links Meta and the Rohingyas can be reproduced in other parts of the world, especially where underlying ethnic violence.
In a statement, Rafael Frankel, Meta’s public policy director for emerging markets in Asia-Pacific, said the company supports efforts to “hold the Burmese military accountable for its crimes against the Rohingya people.”
Frankel did not respond specifically to requests for financial reparation, adding that his work in Burma continues to draw on information “provided by local civil society and international institutions.”
Source: Ambito
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