Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today promised to do more to tackle hate speech in Myanmar, as he was grilled during a US Congressional hearing about his organisation\u2019s alleged role in spreading hate content against Rohingya Muslims.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s happening in Myanmar is a terrible tragedy, and we need to do more\u2026,\u201d he told the US lawmakers when Senator Patrick Leahy asked him about Facebook\u2019s role as a breeding ground for hate speech against Rohingyas.<\/p>\n
Zuckerberg was testifying before the US Congress amid a firestorm over the alleged hijacking of data of millions of Facebook users by British firm Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n
\u201cRecently, UN investigators blamed Facebook for playing a role in inciting possible genocide in Myanmar,\u201d Leahy said, as he cited the tragic death of a Muslim journalist.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou say you use (AI) Artificial Intelligence to find this. This is the type of content I\u2019m referring to. It calls for the death of a Muslim journalist. Now, that threat went straight through your detection systems, it spread very quickly, and then it took attempt after attempt after attempt, and the involvement of civil society groups, to get you to remove it,\u201d the Senator said.<\/p>\n
Zuckerberg replied that Facebook was working on it, citing various steps in vogue to tackle hate speech in Myanmar.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne is we\u2019re hiring dozens of more Burmese-language content reviewers, because hate speech is very language-specific. It\u2019s hard to do it without people who speak the local language, and we need to ramp up our effort there dramatically.<\/p>\n
\u201cSecond we\u2019re working with civil society in Myanmar to identify specific hate figures so we can take down their accounts, rather than specific pieces of content. Third we\u2019re standing up a product team to do specific product changes in Myanmar and other countries that may have similar issues in the future to prevent this from happening,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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