{"id":33380,"date":"2021-06-23T13:09:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T04:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/23\/myanmar-facebook-promotes-content-urging-violence-against-coup-protesters-study"},"modified":"2021-06-23T13:09:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T04:09:03","slug":"myanmar-facebook-promotes-content-urging-violence-against-coup-protesters-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33380","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar: Facebook promotes content urging violence against coup protesters \u2013 study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posts ranging from wanted posters to death threats remain online for months, breaching platform\u2019s own standards<\/p>\n<p>Facebook is promoting content that incites violence against Myanmar\u2019s anti-coup protesters and amplifies junta misinformation, despite promising to clamp down on the misuse of its platform, according to a study.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation by the rights group Global Witness found that Facebook\u2019s recommendation algorithm continues to invite users to view content that breaches its own policies. After liking a Myanmar military fan page, which did not contain recent posts violating Facebook\u2019s policies, the rights group found that Facebook suggested several pro-military pages that contained abusive content.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/23\/myanmar-facebook-promotes-content-urging-violence-against-coup-protesters-study\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posts ranging from wanted posters to death threats remain online for months, breaching platform\u2019s own standardsFacebook is promoting content that incites violence against Myanmar\u2019s anti-coup protesters and amplifies junta misinformation, despite promis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[687,82,1906,824,61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","category-myanmar","category-myanmar-coup","category-social-networking","category-south-and-central-asia","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33391,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33380\/revisions\/33391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}