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Facebook admits foot-dragging on Myanmar hate speech
- Friday | 17th August, 2018
“The ethnic violence in Myanmar is horrific and we have been too slow to prevent misinformation and hate speech on Facebook,” Facebook said. In its statement on Thursday, Facebook said it had banned a number of Myanmar hate figures and organizations from the platform. Because Facebook’s systems struggle to interpret Burmese script, the company is heavily dependent on users reporting hate speech in Myanmar. In early 2015, for instance, there were only two people at Facebook who could speak Burmese monitoring problematic posts. Facebook currently doesn’t have a single employee in Myanmar, relying instead on an outsourced, secretive operation in Kuala Lumpur – called Project Honey Badger – to monitor hate speech and other problematic posts, the Reuters investigation showed.
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