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Meta sued for $2bn over Ethiopia violence
On 3 November 2021, Prof Meareg Amare Abrha was followed home from his university by armed men on motorbikes and shot at close range trying to enter the family home.
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Before the attack, Facebook posts slandered and revealed identifying information about him, his son says.
Despite repeated complaints using Facebook's reporting tool, the platform "left these posts up until it was far too late".
One was removed after his father's killing.
Another, which the platform had committed to remove, remained online as of 8 December 2022.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63938628
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Before the attack, Facebook posts slandered and revealed identifying information about him, his son says.
Despite repeated complaints using Facebook's reporting tool, the platform "left these posts up until it was far too late".
One was removed after his father's killing.
Another, which the platform had committed to remove, remained online as of 8 December 2022.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63938628
It sounds complicated - it involves how much moderation was done in different languages, and it's against the backdrop of a genuine civil war, but this seems more like inter-communal violence.