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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

'Kill more': Facebook fails to detect hate against Rohingya

Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

A new report has found that Facebook failed to detect blatant hate speech and calls to violence against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority years after such behavior was found to have played a determining role in the genocide against them.

The report shared exclusively with The Associated Press showed the rights group Global Witness submitted eight paid ads for approval to Facebook, each including different versions of hate speech against Rohingya. All eight ads were approved by Facebook to be published.

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