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Facebook vows to fight hate speech, but it may be too late for Rohingya Muslims

Facebook Myanmar

RNS A social media network set up to connect people is now acknowledging it needs to do more to prevent the spread of hate speech that contributed to a campaign to drive out Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority. That admission came from Monika Bickert, Facebook’s vice president of global policy management, this month at an event, […]

Increase in religious harassment globally – Pew

Christians in Bangalore protest

World Watch Monitor Restrictions on religion around the world continued to climb in 2016, as more governments tightened controls on religious practices, populist parties increasingly used rhetoric to attack religious minorities, and the harassment of religious groups increased. A 138-page report by the Washington-based Pew Research Center into global restrictions on religion in 2016 – […]