Facebook Unable To Address How Their Website Is Being Used To Promote 'Ethnic Cleansing'

Christopher Woody, Bussiness Insider: Facebook official who oversees the news feed says his team loses sleep over the site's alleged role in Myanmar 'ethnic cleansing'

* Workers at Facebook reportedly "lose sleep" over the use of their platform to spread hate speech.
* The Facebook executive who oversees the newsfeed algorithm said addressing such content was one of his team's biggest challenges.
* Facebook's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has expressed reservations about cracking down on speech.

Adam Mosseri, Facebook's vice president of product management, said that Facebook's contribution to ongoing violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar caused his team distress and was something they struggled to address.

Mosseri said the situation in Myanmar, from where more than 650,000 Rohingya Muslims fled since August, was "deeply concerning in a lot of different ways" during a recent interview on Slate's technology podcast, If Then.

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