{"id":3937,"date":"2021-12-06T17:38:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T16:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/06\/rohingya-sue-facebook-for-150bn-over-myanmar-genocide\/"},"modified":"2021-12-06T17:38:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T16:38:02","slug":"rohingya-sue-facebook-for-150bn-over-myanmar-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/06\/rohingya-sue-facebook-for-150bn-over-myanmar-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Rohingya sue Facebook for \u00a3150bn over Myanmar genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victims in US and UK legal action accuse social media firm of failing to prevent incitement of violence<\/p>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s negligence facilitated the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/23\/myanmar-is-still-committing-genocide-against-rohingya-says-rights-group\">genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar<\/a> after the social media network\u2019s algorithms amplified hate speech and the platform failed to take down inflammatory posts, according to legal action launched in the US and the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The platform faces compensation claims worth more than \u00a3150bn under the coordinated move on both sides of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/dec\/06\/rohingya-sue-facebook-myanmar-genocide-us-uk-legal-action-social-media-violence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e17cba9f4761e760c00a40b238ab06b019df9cde\/0_122_4320_2594\/master\/4320.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7e545a595464f5bc244fff463de687ee\" title=\"Rohingya sue Facebook for \u00a3150bn over Myanmar genocide\" \/>Victims in US and UK legal action accuse social media firm of failing to prevent incitement of violence<br \/>\nFacebook\u2019s negligence facilitated the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar after the social media network\u2019s algorithms amplified hate speech and the platform failed to take down inflammatory posts, according to legal action launched in the US and the UK.<br \/>\nThe platform faces compensation claims worth more than \u00a3150bn under the coordinated move on both sides of the Atlantic. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victims in US and UK legal action accuse social media firm of failing to prevent incitement of violence Facebook\u2019s negligence facilitated the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar after the social media network\u2019s algorithms amplified hate speech and the platform failed to take down inflammatory posts, according to legal action launched in the US and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/06\/rohingya-sue-facebook-for-150bn-over-myanmar-genocide\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rohingya sue Facebook for \u00a3150bn over Myanmar genocide<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3938,"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\/3937"}],"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=3937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}