Avoidance (Click for more details) (1 janv. 2012 – 31 déc. 2013)

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The years 2012-2013 were marked by a wave of intercommunal riots and incidents, targeting both Rohingyas, as well as Muslims, in various parts of the country. Facebook was growing quickly and we were getting concerned about the virulent hate speech which was circulating on the platform. We briefed Facebook executives, including Facebook’s Director of Global Public Policy, Policy Director - Europe and Policy Director, India,, whom Htaike Htaike Aung, co-founder of MIDO, met at international conferences on two distinct occasions - in November 2012 in Baku and in October 2013 in Bali. We also followed up over email to ask for ways to get Facebook to review problematic content and address emergency escalations. They never responded.

The platform was getting more and more users, eventually reaching the 1 million mark. The situation was getting so concerning that we started doing targeted research on hate speech. Both the local and international press were starting to pay more attention to the issue. We had warned Facebook. They knew how to reach us. But they didn’t.

At the end of 2013, journalist Aela Callan eventually managed to get a meeting with Facebook’s VP of Communications and Public Policy, Eliot Schrage, at Facebook’s headquarters. He responded to her warnings of inter communal violence and genocide by linking her up with the Facebook compassion team, whose focus at the time was preventing bullying.

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