A $1.6 billion lawsuit alleges Facebook's inaction fueled violence in Ethiopia

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Abrham Amare, one of the plaintiffs named in a new lawsuit filed against Facebook’s parent company, Meta, claims that social media posts directly led to his father’s murder in Ethiopia last year. Foxglove

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Facebook actively fueled ethnic violence in Ethiopia’s civil war by prioritizing hateful and dangerous content, then not moderating that content fast enough, or sometimes at all, says a new lawsuit filed against Meta, the social media giant’s parent company.

Two Ethiopian researchers and a Kenyan constitutional rights group are

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