Facebook is reckoning with its role in “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing”

By its own admission, Facebook has a Myanmar problem. Social media users in the country used the platform to incite violence against the Rohingya, a mostly Muslim minority group in the Buddhist-majority country. In 2017, hundreds of thousands were displaced, thousands were killed, and hundreds of villages were burned to the ground. It was, the United Nations said, “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.” From Vox.