A little over a year ago, Professor Meareg Amare Abrha was shot outside his home and left to bleed to death.
The suit has been filed in Nairobi, Kenya, Facebook’s East African content moderation hub, and takes the form of a constitutional petition, asking the court to order Facebook to make fundamental changes to its operations.
And finally, it calls for the creation of a restitution fund for victims of hate and violence incited on Facebook – $2 billion for harm from posts, with a further $400 million to be allocated for similar harm from sponsored posts. And this isn't the first time that the company has been accused of failing to prevent hateful content in Ethiopia. In 2019, retired Ethiopian runner Haile Gebrselassie blamed misinformation on Facebook for violence that left 81 people dead.
Documents provided by Haugen revealed that the company was aware that it was failing to adequately moderate content in most of Ethiopia's 40-odd languages.
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