Ethiopia’s government is building its own social media platform to replace Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and Zoom, the state’s communications security agency said on Monday. While the government doesn’t ...

Facebook has been ignoring its failures in the country for years. Now -- even after being publicly called out -- the company is still doing the bare minimum to save face.

Facebook actively fueled ethnic violence in Ethiopia’s civil war by prioritizing hateful and dangerous content, then not moderating that content fast enough, or sometimes at all, says a new lawsuit ...

Ethiopia is currently undergoing a humanitarian crisis with violence largely fueled by hate speech on Facebook. The company has promised to deploy sophisticated algorithms to stem the flow of hate ...

Two Ethiopian researchers accuse the tech giant of not removing hateful content they say helped drive bloodshed during the nation's brutal civil war. Reading time 2 minutes Facebook and its parent ...

Dec 14 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab was accused in a lawsuit filed in Kenya on Wednesday of letting violent and hateful posts from Ethiopia flourish on Facebook, inflaming the ...

Facebook's secret blacklist of Dangerous Individuals and Organizations (DIO) was leaked on October 12, 2021. Among the list of 4,000 banned entities which includes hate groups, criminals, and ...

Ethiopians suing Meta for failing to adequately moderate content that amplified violence that left over half-a-million people dead during the Tigray War have been granted the go-ahead to serve the ...