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A 2022 analysis by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the Observer found that Facebook was letting users post content inciting violence through hate and misinformation, despite being aware that it was fuelling tensions in Tigray.
A Kenyan court ruled that Meta, the company that owns Facebook, could be sued in the East African country in a case of fuelling ethnic violence in neighbouring Ethiopia in 2021.
Meta had argued that courts in Kenya did not have jurisdiction over the case. Facebook’s content moderators were based in Nairobi during a conflict in Ethiopia’s North that lasted between 2020 and 2022. They saw a spike in hateful content and misinformation on the social media platform in the Eastern African country.
One of the victims was a university professor who was murdered in his home after threatening posts were published on Facebook. The claimants, the son of the murdered professor and a former researcher at Amnesty International, want Meta to pay US$2.4bn to victims of hate and violence incited on Facebook.
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A 2022 analysis by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the Observer found that Facebook was letting users post content inciting violence through hate and misinformation, despite being aware that it was fuelling tensions in Tigray.
