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Sundays Last week tonightJohn Oliver examined Facebook's unsuccessful attempts to control hate speech in Myanmar – inappropriate interdiction practices for hiring workers.
"Facebook has been aggressively expanding abroad," Oliver said on the social media site, which he described as "the worst place to wish a happy birthday to someone else." Other than a burial ". the United States and more than 80% of their users come from foreign countries … The company has made very serious mistakes abroad. "
The use of the Internet has exploded in Myanmar, also known as Burma, in recent years, as the country went from dictatorship to a "quasi-civilian government." In 2013, only 1.2% of citizens had access to the Internet. Facebook – partly because it is preinstalled on many mobile phones. In fact, Oliver notes that many Burmese use the terms "Facebook" and "Internet" interchangeably.
But this widespread use of Facebook has led to an unbridled hate speech, especially against the Rohingya Muslim group, which was the victim of a wave of "ethnic cleansing" in 2017 that made at least 10,000 dead.
"A report on Myanmar prepared by independent US investigators said:" Facebook has been a useful tool for those seeking to spread hate, "Oliver said." And it's strange to hear about something that has It is as if in five years, US investigators called bubble tea "an aggressive threat to human rights".
Much of this hate speech circulated through military leaders, politicians and Buddhist monks like Ashin Wirathu, who Time nicknamed "Burmese Bin Laden" in a 2013 cover. Many warnings, Facebook has not banned Wirathu before the start of 2018 – this delay despite Facebook's ridiculously grainy content rules, which even regulate the types of anus that can be photographed on faces.
Myanmar has failed in its dubious efforts to detect hate speech – in part because its technology is not compatible with Myanmar's various fonts. They rely on the Burmese to report the content, but the country's reporting systems were listed in English until the end of 2015. And the reported content was often not removed because Facebook does not have the same content. had not even Burmese revisers – only one in 2014, two from 2015, then four to outsourcing.
The company's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, recently hired 60 other reviewers to help minimize the problem. But Facebook is obviously not enough: in a mid-August report, Reuters found more than 1,000 Facebook messages attacking the Rohingya.
Oliver closed the segment with a satirical advertisement on Facebook that pointed out that "somewhere between 80 and 100% of what is on our site is bullshit – complete bullshit". The host added: "Extreme skepticism and see Facebook for what it really is: a foul swamp of falsehoods and direct lies interspersed with occasional reminders of a dead animal. "
