Rohingya refugees are taking Meta to Ireland’s High Court for the tech giant’s alleged role in the 2017 Myanmar genocide, one of the worst war crimes of this century. Friday (25 August) marked six years since the start of the ethnic cleansing, which saw more than 25,000 people of Muslim Rohingya descent killed by Myanmar’s military, with a further 700,000 displaced. In 2018, UN human rights investigators said the use of Meta’s social media platform Facebook had played a key role in spreading hate speech, fuelling the violence. “Facebook’s algorithms and Meta’s ruthless pursuit of profit created an echo…
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