[thamer]

Does this mean that Facebook's advertising system will finally start rejecting ads calling for genocide in Myanmar, and that they will finally flag comments expressing the same intent? As recently as March of this year there were reports that Facebook accepted ads that said "The current killing of the Kalar is not enough, we need to kill more!" or "They are very dirty. The Bengali/Rohingya women have a very low standard of living and poor hygiene. They are not attractive".

Full story: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/kill-facebook-fail...

These were submitted to test Facebook's systems, because there's a good reason not to trust their promises on this front. Facebook was used extensively to propagate hate speech in Myanmar during the crisis of 2017, with their moderation tools and hate speech detection system letting through a ton of hateful content with real-world consequences, in the course of an actual ethnic cleansing campaign.

Other references: "Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/06/technology/myanmar-facebo... (2018)

"Violent hate speech continues to thrive on Facebook in Myanmar, AP report finds" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/myanmar-facebook-violent-hate-s... (9 months ago)

[bertil]

The issue here wasn’t that Facebook didn’t have resources for a basic translation tool (able to translate open death threats) but that Burmese had inconsistent encoding. That delayed the translation effort.

https://www.localizationlab.org/blog/2019/3/25/burmese-font-...