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05-29-2017, 09:26 PM
Facebook is valiantly trying but failing to moderate hate speech in some languages
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Efforts by Facebook to moderate content in one of its fastest-growing countries has evidently **t been easy.
Like what it's doing in many other markets, the social media giant is trying to stem content deemed hateful in Myanmar.*
SEE ALSO: This gripping app lets you 'walk a mile' in a 16-year-old refugee girl's shoes (http://mashable.com/2017/04/26/refugee-app-finding-home-rohingya-malaysia/)
The emerging market experienced a surge of new internet users in recent years, and Facebook benefited with 10 million Burmese users (http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/business/tech**logy/20816-facebook-racks-up-10m-myanmar-users.html) by 2016.
With these new users come challenges. One hot button topic, the ongoing Rohingya refugee crisis (http://mashable.com/2015/05/29/myanmar-migrant-crisis/), has resulted in posts made insulting the mi**rity Muslim Rohingyas. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/29/facebook-myanmar-hate-speech/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Efforts by Facebook to moderate content in one of its fastest-growing countries has evidently **t been easy.
Like what it's doing in many other markets, the social media giant is trying to stem content deemed hateful in Myanmar.*
SEE ALSO: This gripping app lets you 'walk a mile' in a 16-year-old refugee girl's shoes (http://mashable.com/2017/04/26/refugee-app-finding-home-rohingya-malaysia/)
The emerging market experienced a surge of new internet users in recent years, and Facebook benefited with 10 million Burmese users (http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/business/tech**logy/20816-facebook-racks-up-10m-myanmar-users.html) by 2016.
With these new users come challenges. One hot button topic, the ongoing Rohingya refugee crisis (http://mashable.com/2015/05/29/myanmar-migrant-crisis/), has resulted in posts made insulting the mi**rity Muslim Rohingyas. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/29/facebook-myanmar-hate-speech/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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