{"id":18367,"date":"2025-04-03T18:37:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T16:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/meta-faces-1-8bn-lawsuit-over-claims-it-inflamed-violence-in-ethiopia\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T18:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T16:37:58","slug":"meta-faces-1-8bn-lawsuit-over-claims-it-inflamed-violence-in-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/meta-faces-1-8bn-lawsuit-over-claims-it-inflamed-violence-in-ethiopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta faces \u00a31.8bn lawsuit over claims it inflamed violence in Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Son of murdered academic calls on Facebook owner to \u2018radically change how it moderates dangerous content\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Meta faces a $2.4bn (\u00a31.8bn) lawsuit accusing the Facebook owner of inflaming violence in Ethiopia after the Kenyan high court said a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/dec\/14\/meta-faces-lawsuit-over-facebook-posts-inciting-violence-in-tigray-war\">legal case<\/a> against the US tech group could go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>The case brought by two Ethiopian nationals calls on Facebook to alter its algorithm to stop promoting hateful material and incitement to violence, as well as hiring more content moderators in Africa. It is also seeking a $2.4bn \u201crestitution fund\u201d for victims of hate and violence incited on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/apr\/03\/meta-faces-18bn-lawsuit-over-claims-it-inflamed-violence-in-ethiopia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e0349f2fa4e44f8a661094899244e6ceed27669d\/100_0_1500_900\/master\/1500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=af6cd0b34110baadb5eae9cae8eee1fc\" title=\"Meta faces \u00a31.8bn lawsuit over claims it inflamed violence in Ethiopia\" \/>Son of murdered academic calls on Facebook owner to \u2018radically change how it moderates dangerous content\u2019<br \/>\nMeta faces a $2.4bn (\u00a31.8bn) lawsuit accusing the Facebook owner of inflaming violence in Ethiopia after the Kenyan high court said a legal case against the US tech group could go ahead.<br \/>\nThe case brought by two Ethiopian nationals calls on Facebook to alter its algorithm to stop promoting hateful material and incitement to violence, as well as hiring more content moderators in Africa. It is also seeking a $2.4bn \u201crestitution fund\u201d for victims of hate and violence incited on Facebook. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Son of murdered academic calls on Facebook owner to \u2018radically change how it moderates dangerous content\u2019 Meta faces a $2.4bn (\u00a31.8bn) lawsuit accusing the Facebook owner of inflaming violence in Ethiopia after the Kenyan high court said a legal case against the US tech group could go ahead. The case brought by two Ethiopian nationals &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/meta-faces-1-8bn-lawsuit-over-claims-it-inflamed-violence-in-ethiopia\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meta faces \u00a31.8bn lawsuit over claims it inflamed violence in Ethiopia<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18367"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}