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Amnesty International claims that Facebook was aware that its algorithms were amplifying harmful anti-Rohingya hate speech in Myanmar, but still did nothing to stop it.

It will soon introduce restrictions on which social media accounts can post news-related content.

The scale of Meta's content removals points to the sheer deluge of hate speech and disinformation that is flowing through the country's social media networks.

U.S. companies – including Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter – are subsidizing Chinese and Russian information warfare by providing free electronic amplification services.

A leading advocacy group claims that the platform's ability to detect Burmese-language hate speech "remains abysmally poor.”

The firm's announcement came a day after a group of Rohingya refugees sued Facebook's parent company for facilitating genocide.

The head of the state communications regulator was fired swiftly after popular social media sites and apps were restricted for failing to comply with data localization laws.

"This process is the same in Kazakhstan as it is for other countries around the world," a Meta spokesman told Reuters.

In giving the Kazakh government direct access to identify content as problematic, Facebook is empowering an autocratic government to further police what its citizens say. 

Internal company documents on India highlight Facebook's constant struggles in quashing abusive content.

In a ruling, the court stated that Facebook’s citing of a privacy provision to withhold the records from Myanmar was “rich with irony.”