Activists In Myanmar Say Facebook Needs To Do More To Quell Hate Speech

Facebook has apologized in recent months for becoming a tool of foreign interference in elections, disinformation and hate speech in some of the world's most mature democracies. But critics are concerned that there's potential for even greater chaos elsewhere, especially in places where Facebook is the dominant social media platform.

That's the situation in Myanmar, where civil war has festered for decades and the end of military rule has unleashed virulent nationalism and intolerance toward minorities. U.N. investigators and human rights groups that Facebook has fanned the flames of a conflict that U.N. officials haveand bear the hallmarks of .