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Landmark $150B lawsuit seeks to hold Facebook accountable for Rohingya genocide

Enlarge / A young Rohingya man carries an older Rohingya woman in a refugee camp in Bangladesh. Some 750, 000 Rohingya people have fled Myanmar as a result of the genocide. (credit: Michał Fiałkowski/iStock Editorial ) Rohingya refugees have filed a lawsuit against Meta, formerly known as Facebook, for its alleged role in the ethnic […]

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Myanmar: How repressive regimes quash dissent with Internet shutdowns

Ten years ago, a desperate Egyptian government, led by then-President Hosni Mubarak, ordered the nation’s Internet to be shut down, a ploy to stymie pro-democracy protests. The move backfired. The countrywide service outage, ironically, drew more people outdoors to learn what was going on. As bigger crowds took to city streets, the so-called Arab Spring […]