Jakarta, Indonesia — Years after coming under scrutiny for contributing to ethnic and religious violence in Myanmar, Facebook still has problems detecting and moderating hate speech and misinformation ...

Facebook is trying to limit the spread of “misinformation” by Myanmar’s military after it took power in a coup last week. The social media company said Thursday that it was “treating the situation in ...

London — Rohingya refugees launched coordinated legal action against Facebook in the U.S. and U.K. on Monday, alleging the tech giant contributed to ethnic cleansing in Myanmar by knowingly allowing ...

(Reuters) - The Myanmar military's shutdown of Facebook access following the ouster of the democratically elected Aung San Suu Kyi caps years of tension between the social media company and the most ...

YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar’s new military government blocked access to Facebook as resistance to Monday’s coup surged amid calls for civil disobedience to protest the ousting of the elected government ...

A file photo of young demonstrators participating in an anti-coup mask strike in Yangon, Myanmar, on April 4, 2021. Credit: AP Photo/ File Years after coming under scrutiny for contributing to ethnic ...

Days after a coup and the detention of Aung San Suu Kyi and other elected leaders, the military in Myanmar is moving to strangle free speech by blocking access to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and ...

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Facebook on Thursday said it had banned the Myanmar military from using its platforms with immediate effect, as weeks of mass demonstrations continue in the Southeast Asian country after the military ...

Rohingya refugees are suing Facebook over its own admitted failure to stop the spread of hate speech that contributed to violence in Myanmar. According to a website set up for the campaign, the UK ...

In September 2021, a court in Washington, D.C., has ordered Facebook to disclose records of accounts connected to the atrocities against the Rohingyas in Myanmar. The decision comes after in June 2020 ...