Landmark $150B lawsuit seeks to hold Facebook accountable for Rohingya genocide
Facebook knew it was fanning flames of violence, did nothing, lawsuit alleges.
...Facebook knew it was fanning flames of violence, did nothing, lawsuit alleges.
Defective product claim
The lawsuit alleges that Facebook is liable because it created a defective product, a relatively new legal argument that seeks to get around the company’s protections under Section 230. Facebook’s ranking algorithm, the lawsuit alleges, spurred violence against the Rohingya, “precisely the kind of harm that could have been reasonably expected from Facebook’s propagation and prioritization of anti-Rohingya hate speech and misinformation on its system.”
Furthermore, the lawsuit says that Facebook was negligent in its duty to “use reasonable care to avoid injuring others.” The company, the lawsuit alleges, “breached this duty by—among other things—negligently designing its algorithms to fill Burmese users’ News Feeds (especially users particularly susceptible to such content) with disproportionate amounts of hate speech, misinformation, and other content dangerous to Plaintiff and the Class.”
The lawsuit alleges that Facebook is liable because it created a defective product, a relatively new legal argument that seeks to get around the company’s protections under Section 230. Facebook’s ranking algorithm, the lawsuit alleges, spurred violence against the Rohingya, “precisely the kind of harm that could have been reasonably expected from Facebook’s propagation and prioritization of anti-Rohingya hate speech and misinformation on its system.”
Furthermore, the lawsuit says that Facebook was negligent in its duty to “use reasonable care to avoid injuring others.” The company, the lawsuit alleges, “breached this duty by—among other things—negligently designing its algorithms to fill Burmese users’ News Feeds (especially users particularly susceptible to such content) with disproportionate amounts of hate speech, misinformation, and other content dangerous to Plaintiff and the Class.”
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