Rohingya refugees filed a $150 billion lawsuit against Facebook over its failure to curb misinformation and hate speech on its platform, which “amounted to a substantial cause, and eventual perpetuation of, the Rohingya genocide” in Burma, also known as Myanmar.
Lawyers in the United Kingdom and the United States launched legal campaigns against Facebook’s parent company, Meta, for the social media giant’s role in facilitating violence against the persecuted Muslim ethnic group in Burma.
