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Facebook is the main means of communication in Myanmar.
In April 2018, US Senator Patrick Leahy pointed out to founder Mark Zuckerberg during a senate hearing on Facebook’s ties to Cambridge Analytica how a specific threat calling for the death of Muslim journalists in Myanmar passed Facebook’s detection systems and took numerous calls by civil society groups for it to be taken down.
Against this backdrop, after a long history of “too little done too late” when it comes to Facebook rectifying issues in Myanmar, the error feels more weighty than it would if it were another country’s reputation involved.The fact also is that such translation difficulties when it comes to the Burmese language is not new to Facebook.
A cellphone user looks at a Facebook page at a shop in Latha street, Yangon, Myanmar August 8, 2018. REUTERS/Ann Wang/Files
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