{"id":8301,"date":"2022-12-14T20:37:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T19:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/14\/meta-faces-1-6bn-lawsuit-over-facebook-posts-inciting-violence-in-tigray-war\/"},"modified":"2022-12-14T20:37:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T19:37:23","slug":"meta-faces-1-6bn-lawsuit-over-facebook-posts-inciting-violence-in-tigray-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/14\/meta-faces-1-6bn-lawsuit-over-facebook-posts-inciting-violence-in-tigray-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta faces $1.6bn lawsuit over Facebook posts inciting violence in Tigray war"},"content":{"rendered":"

Legal action backed by Amnesty alleges hateful posts inflaming war in northern Ethiopia were allowed to flourish on platform<\/p>\n

Meta has been accused in a lawsuit of letting posts that inflamed the war in Tigray flourish on Facebook, after an Observer investigation<\/a> in February revealed repeated inaction on posts that incited violence. <\/p>\n

The lawsuit, filed in the high court of Kenya, where Meta\u2019s sub-Saharan African operations are based, alleges that Facebook\u2019s recommendations systems amplified hateful and violent posts in the context of the war in northern Ethiopia, which raged for two years until a ceasefire was agreed in early November<\/a>. The lawsuit seeks the creation of a $1.6bn (\u00a31.3bn) fund for victims of hate speech.<\/p>\n

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\nLegal action backed by Amnesty alleges hateful posts inflaming war in northern Ethiopia were allowed to flourish on platform
\nMeta has been accused in a lawsuit of letting posts that inflamed the war in Tigray flourish on Facebook, after an Observer investigation in February revealed repeated inaction on posts that incited violence.
\nThe lawsuit, filed in the high court of Kenya, where Meta\u2019s sub-Saharan African operations are based, alleges that Facebook\u2019s recommendations systems amplified hateful and violent posts in the context of the war in northern Ethiopia, which raged for two years until a ceasefire was agreed in early November. The lawsuit seeks the creation of a $1.6bn (\u00a31.3bn) fund for victims of hate speech. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Legal action backed by Amnesty alleges hateful posts inflaming war in northern Ethiopia were allowed to flourish on platform Meta has been accused in a lawsuit of letting posts that inflamed the war in Tigray flourish on Facebook, after an Observer investigation in February revealed repeated inaction on posts that incited violence. The lawsuit, filed …<\/p>\n

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