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What Facebook Does (and Doesn’t) Have to Do with Ethiopia’s Ethnic Violence
A victim’s relative is among those accusing Meta in a Kenyan court of failing to adequately police incendiary speech on Facebook during Ethiopia’s civil war.
Much greater effort from the company is warranted.
- ICG
But Meta’s task is hardly straightforward.
In December 2022, the son of slain Ethiopian professor Meareg Amare Abrha was among those who filed a lawsuit against Meta, the owner of Facebook.
The constitutional petition, which was filed in Kenya – home to a Meta moderating hub – alleged that the company had evinced a “woeful failure to address violence on the…