Facebook was used to spread disinformation about the Rohingya, and in 2018 the company began to delete posts, accounts and other content it determined were part of a campaign to incite violence,VOA reported.

That deleted but stored data is at issue in a case in the United States over whether Facebook should release the information as part of a claim in international court.

Facebook this week objected to part of a U.S. magistrate judge’s order that could have an impact on how much data internet companies must turn over to investigators examining the role social media played in a variety of international incidents, from the 2017 Rohingya genocide in Myanmar to the 2021 Capitol riot in Washington