Demonstrators carrying a student union flag march during an anti-military coup protest in Mandalay, Myanmar, 10 May 2021. Photo: EPA
17 July 2021
A new drafting committee for a “hate speech” “law” that includes much broader political “...
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05 December 2020
Facebook on Thursday said it is revising its systems to prioritize blocking slurs against...
India is Facebook and its messaging service WhatsApp's biggest market in terms of users, and the firm is under pressure worldwide over the policing of hate speech (Photo: AFP)
17 September 2020
Facebook does not profit from hate speech, the tech giant's India chief said Wednesday,...
T. Raja Singh, a regional lawmaker for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party, was blocked "for violating our policy prohibiting those that promote or engage in violence and hate from having a presence on our platform," a Facebook spokesman said. Photo: Facebook
04 September 2020
Facebook has banned an outspoken right-wing Indian politician for spreading hate speech...
India is Facebook's biggest global market in terms of users (Photo: AFP)
18 August 2020
Facebook is in the eye of a political storm in India after claims it failed to take...
A close-up image showing the Facebook app on an iPhone. Photo: EPA
05 May 2020
The government of Myanmar has ordered all civil servants to stop using hate speech on...
Mizzima Editor Win Naing, left, talks with Facebook's Mr Rafael Frankel, right, about Facebook's outreach in Myanmar. Photo: Mizzima
09 March 2020
Mizzima Editor Win Naing recently sat down with Rafael Frankel, Director of Public Policy...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Photo: EPA
02 January 2020
Tamil writer, Nellai Kannan was arrested in Perambalur, India, on charges of making hate...
Hate speech and social media posts led to conflict - Riot police block a road in Mandalay, Myanmar, 04 July 2014. One Buddhist and one Muslim were killed and 14 people injured in two nights of clashes. The violence followed allegations that two Muslim brothers who own a teashop raped a Buddhist female member of staff. Photo: EPA
30 November 2019
Increasing hate speech and diminishing freedoms are of serious concerns as Myanmar gets...
Myanmar people gather for refreshement at a teashop in Yangon many hangout to chat and browse Facebook with their mobile phone. Photo: Sai Aung Main/AFP
25 June 2019
Facebook says it has been able to detect and remove “considerably more hate speech than...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Photo: Etienne Laurent/EPA
22 June 2019
Facebook is seeking to “police” its content to try to remove hate speech with Myanmar and...
A view of Facebook's corporate headquarters in Menlo Park, California, USA. Photo: Peter Dasilva/EPA
17 August 2018
Facebook has said it has been too slow to address misinformation and hate on the platform...