Through its “dangerous algorithms and reckless pursuit of profit,” Meta “contributed to the atrocities perpetrated by Myanmar’s military against fellow Rohingya in 2017,” the report says.
Amnesty’s report on Wednesday published interviews with displaced Rohingya, former Meta employees, academics, activists and others.
Maung Sawyeddollah, a 21-year-old Rohingya refugee, told The Associated Press: “We believe genocide against the Rohingya was only imaginable because of Facebook. They communicated with each other to spread hatred, organized campaigns through Facebook. But Facebook fell silent.
The Rohingya refugees are now unspecified reparations from the California-based tech giant.
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Rafael Frankel, Director of Public Policy for Emerging Markets, Meta APAC, told Benzinga: “Meta stands in solidarity with the foreign network and supports efforts to hold the Tatmadaw accountable for their crimes against the Rohingya people. To this end, we have made voluntary and legal disclosures of knowledge to the UN Investigative Mechanism on Myanmar and Gambia, and lately we are also in the OECD court case process.
“Our paintings on security and integrity in Myanmar continue to be guided by input from civil society organizations and foreign institutions, adding the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar; the Human Rights Impact Assessment that we commissioned in 2018; and our continued monitoring of human rights risks. Frankel added.
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