Facebook apologises for ‘misuse of platform’ that led to Sri Lanka’s deadly anti-Muslims riots in 2018

Facebook’s lack of a serious response to signs of abuse on its platform in Sri Lanka may have helped stoke deadly violence in the country in 2018, according to an investigation of the social network’s operations there.The company has released a summary of the findings, along with other independent assessments of the service’s impact on human rights in Indonesia and Cambodia. “We deplore this misuse of our platform,” the company said in a response to the Sri Lanka report. “We recognise, and…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3084148/facebook-apologises-misuse-platform-led-sri-lankas-deadly-anti