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Several refugees in the U.S. and the UK have sued Facebook for $150 billion, accusing the company of allowing the spread of hate speech against them on its social media platform.
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A class-action suit filed in California alleges that Facebook's failures to monitor content on the platform led to real-world violence against the Muslim minority group.
A law firm in the U.K. gave a letter of notice to the London office of Facebook.
The U.K. letter accuses Facebook of using its platform to amplify hate speech against the Muslim minority and failing to invest in fact checkers who were aware of the situation in the country.
If the social media giant raises the U.S., the lawsuit wants to apply Burmese laws against it. Section 230 protects platforms from liability over content posted by their users.
There is no known precedent for using foreign laws against social media platforms in the US.
Forbes reached out to Facebook about the lawsuits.
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720,000. The total number of people who were forced to flee their homes in the state of Rakhine in the country is over one hundred and fifty.
The key background.
The U.N. human rights investigators found that Facebook played a role in the persecution of the Muslim minority. The platform was criticized for allowing the spread of Islamophobic content. The U.N. Human Rights Council called the platform a useful tool for spreading hate. In the same year, Facebook admitted that it had not done enough to prevent the spread of hate speech and violence against the Muslim minority. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Netherlands is currently being pursued by The Gambia for enabling violence against the Rohingya.
A group of people are suing Facebook for $150 billion over violence in their country.
A group of people are suing Facebook for $150 billion over hate speech.
