Meta accused in lawsuit of allowing posts that inflamed Ethiopia conflict
By Reuters
25 December 2022 |
11:07 am
Meta Platforms was accused in a lawsuit filed in Kenya on Wednesday of letting violent and hateful posts from Ethiopia flourish on Facebook, inflaming the Ethiopian civil war.
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