The founder and CEO of the company, Mark Zuckerberg, admitted that Facebook used to provoke violence against minority Rohingya people in Myanmar's Rakhine state. In an interview given to Vox in the US online press, he said that there has been a lot of talk about Rohingya issue and there is no way to deny that Facebook has been 'real harm'.
He also said, "One Saturday I got a phone call, and then I saw the message through Facebook messenger is being said that the two parties are being in the same. In some messages the Muslims are alerting each other. The Buddhists have become angry. So keep arms with self-defense, go to such a place. People from other parties are also conducting the same conversation. We could catch the matter, I could stop it. Now we are giving special attention to such things. '
Earlier, last month, United Nations investigator Yanhhai Li on Myanmar violence said, "Facebook has become a violent beast in the country." He also said, "The strict Buddhist leaders have Facebook pages and through them they are spreading hate against minorities." British daily Guardian is one of them The report says that just before the start of violence against Myanmar last Rohingyas on Facebook Began to post 'hate speech' or hate speech.The Guardian quoted leading online analyst Raymond Besto as saying that when the Rohingya started fleeing to Bangladesh in August last year in the face of torture, posting of a group of Rohingya opposition members on Facebook increased by 200 percent. The number of members of the Facebook group is 55,000. According to a statistic, only one percent of Myanmar's 530 million population had internet in 2014.But in just a couple of years, the number of Facebook users in Myanmar increased to 1.34 million in 2016.
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