Since 2020, Ethiopia has been embroiled in a civil war. A new lawsuit alleges that Facebook's failure to moderate hate speech in that country fanned the flames of the conflict and led directly to real-world casualties.
Leaked documents shared by Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen show that parent company Meta's leadership remained well-informed of the platform's potential for exacerbating political and ethnic violence throughout the Tigray war, earning Ethiopia special attention at times from the company's premiere risk and response team.
In testimony before the US Senate last fall, Haugen likened the violence in Ethiopia to the genocide of more than 25,000 Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, war crimes for which Facebook has been internationally condemned for its role in instigating, by the, among others. "What we saw in Myanmar and are now seeing in Ethiopia are only the beginning chapters of a story so terrifying no one wants to read the end of it," Haugen, a former Facebook product manager, told lawmakers.
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