In March 2018, the UN concluded that Facebook had played a ‘determining role’ in the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people. Violence was enabled by Facebook’s frictionless architecture, propelling hate speech through a population at a velocity previously unimaginable. Facebook’s apathetic response was positively Orwellian. ‘There is no place for hate speech or content that promotes violence on Facebook, and we work hard to keep it off our platform,’
