Rohingya sue Facebook for £150bn over Myanmar hate speech

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Hundreds of thousands of Muslims fled to other countries after a campaign of violence against them.

Dozens of refugees in the UK and US have sued Facebook, accusing the social media giant of allowing hate speech against them to spread.

They are demanding more than $150 billion in compensation from Facebook, saying it promoted violence against the minority.

Tens of thousands of Muslims were killed in a military campaign in the country of Myanmar.

Facebook did not respond to the allegations.

The company is accused of allowing the dissemination of dangerous misinformation for years.

A British law firm representing some of the refugees has written a letter to Facebook.

The hate speech wasamplified by Facebook.
The firm failed to invest in fact checkers who knew about the political situation in the country.
The company failed to take down accounts that incited violence against the Muslim community.
Despite warnings from charities and the media, it failed to take appropriate and timely action.

Lawyers filed a legal complaint against Facebook in San Francisco, accusing it of being willing to trade the lives of the people of the Muslim minority for better market penetration in a small country in Southeast Asia.

They cite a post on Facebook in which the author said "We must fight them the way Hitler did the Jews."

They should pour fuel and set fire to meet Allah faster.

There are more than 20 million Facebook users in the country. The social media site is the main way for many to get and share news.

In the year of 2018, Facebook admitted that it had not done enough to prevent the spread of hate speech against the Muslim minority.

An independent report commissioned by Facebook said that the platform had created an "enabling environment" for human rights abuse.

The government and the public have been discriminating against the illegal migrants for decades.

The military launched a violent purge in the state after police posts were attacked.

More than one million people fled to Bangladesh after thousands of people died. There are allegations of human rights abuses.

The UN accused Facebook of being slow and ineffective in its response to the spread of hatred online.

US law protects Facebook from liability over its users' posts. The new lawsuit says the law of the country should prevail.

Meta was asked for her opinion.

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The family of a refugee was killed in front of them.

Social media.
There is a country called Myanmar.
Asia.
It's called Meta.
There is a group of people who are referred to as the "rebels."
Facebook.
Hate speech.