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ethnicity Issues
Although the social platform has a hate speech policy, reports have pointed out that Facebook has never deleted it and even caused a catastrophic genocide. Especially, ethnicity issue.
more than 400 million people using Facebook in India, which is one of the countries with the most users. At the same time, using Facebook in India will also see a lot of hate speech. However, there are reports citing internal employee Facebook only "selectively" and uses algorithms and "recommendation systems" to push bad news to more people over the "anti-Muslim" content.
Since the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi (Narendra Modi) came to power in 2014, the "Hindu nationalism" (Hindutva) promoted by him has severely torn up the Indian society and confronted itself in all aspects. Facebook and WhatsApp were accused of being "accomplices" who contributed to hate speech and assisted Modi's leading party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), to spread inflammatory content in order to win the Indian election in 2019.
Hate has evolved from "online" to "offline", leading to violent incidents！！
A Facebook user, 21-year-old female living in northern India. At the beginning of the account establishment, only some innocuous content such as soft pornography appeared on her page. However, when India and the feud Pakistan broke out in the military conflict in Kashmir, and the two sides suffered heavy casualties, her page automatically showed a large number of "anti-Muslims", "support Modi", and "badly criticize Pakistan" content, full of content. With hatred, conspiracy theories and false information.
However, before Facebook could effectively classify and label the above-mentioned languages, the inflammatory remarks circulating on social platforms had long been transformed into violence in the real world. Since February 2020, a Bharatiya Janata Party politician has posted a video on Facebook, publicly calling on his supporters to assist the police in driving out most Muslim protesters on the streets of New Delhi. Unfortunately, severe riots broke out in the area within a few hours, killing 53 people, most of them Muslims. What is even more irritating is that Facebook did not delete it until the film accumulated thousands of views and shares. (news from yahoo news)
The spread of hatred extends from speech to physical confrontation.
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