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Unidentified men carry knives and slings in front of a burning house in Gawdu Tharya village, near Maungdaw, in northern Myanmar.
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According to an independent report commissioned by the company, Facebook has not always done enough to prevent its platform from spreading hate speech that fuel a deadly violence in Myanmar.
The report, produced by Business for Social Responsibility, a non-profit organization, also proposed recommendations on Facebook to help improve human rights in the country, including stricter enforcement of policies. content and the regular publication of data relating to human rights violations.
"The report concludes that before this year, we were not doing enough to prevent our platform from being used to encourage division and incite violence offline," said Alex Warofka on Monday. responsible for the product policy on Facebook. "We agree that we can and should do more."
The report comes amid reports of widespread genocide by the military in Myanmar. In March, UN human rights experts investigating violence in the country concluded that Facebook was playingdetermining role"in the crisis, in which hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims fled the country.
BSR recommended that Facebook improve the application of its community standards, which describe what is allowed and not allowed on the social network. To achieve this, Facebook said that almost complete development of a team including Myanmar's local issues, as well as expertise in policy and operations, is essential to achieve this.
Facebook said it was using the CrowdTangle social listening tool to analyze potentially harmful content and understand how it spread in Myanmar. The company also uses artificial intelligence to identify and prevent the broadcast of messages containing graphic violence or dehumanizing comments.
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It was also suggested to preserve and share data that can help to assess human rights violations, especially situation-specific data in Myanmar, so that the international community can better assess the efforts of the society in the area of repression.
"We are determined to work with the relevant authorities and provide them with information during their investigations into international human rights violations in Myanmar, and we preserve the data for this purpose," said Warofka, emphasizing that he had adopted this approach with the content and accounts associated with Myanmar. military he removed in August and October.
Another recommendation includes the establishment of a policy defining Facebook's approach to moderating human rights content, according to a suggestion by Warofka: Facebook "studies the possibility".
Senior United Nations human rights officials in August recommended that Myanmar's military leaders be prosecuted for genocide against Rohingya Muslims. More than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled from Rakhine State, Myanmar, since rebel attacks triggered a military reaction in August 2017.
UN investigators reportedly found numerous crimes committed against the minority in Myanmar, including gang rapes, enslavement, burning of villages and the killing of children. About 10,000 people were reportedly killed in violence and tens of thousands reportedly fled the country.
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