Among many other cases of hate speech being published on
Facebook, more than 1,000 anti-Rohingya posts
were found which intended to spread hate and terror. According to a newsagent, Facebook
is continuously being used as a mean to prompt violence against Muslim group
regardless of the fact that the company has repeatedly promised to get the
issue resolved quickly. The agent told that some of the content has been there
for years and nobody has ever raised voice against its publication.
According to Reuters, the majority of the anti-Rohingya
comments, posts, and videos were done using the Burmese language. The comments
and posts mostly threatened Rohingya citizens and in some places, the community
was regarded as dogs, maggots, and rapists.
In an interview, Facebook acknowledged that it had initially
acted slowly to tackle the issue of hate speech spreading and said that "We're
now working hard to ensure we're doing all we can to prevent the spread of
misinformation and hate”.
It was reported that as more people watched anti-Rohingya content over Facebook, more hatred started to
spread in the area. Reporters tell that this is not the first time that
Facebook is being reported as spreading hate speech by allowing extremist
content to get published. Though the company continues to tell that all these
are nothing but false allegations and that they are doing everything that they
can to stop hate speech from getting published over their platform.
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