It took a university student in Ethiopia four years to get a horrific online photo removed.
When Ethiopian university student Moti Dereje logged into his Facebook account in late November 2018, he was expecting to see the usual updates from his friends and family."As I refreshed my news feed, I saw my father's dead body lying there," he told the BBC's The Comb podcast.
For Mr Moti, rather than seeing the picture taken down, he started to see more posts showing the same image. But for over four years, and after Mr Moti says he reported the posts multiple times, they stayed online.Sometimes I get depressed and I can't stop my hand searching his name and checking out the posts"Only a graphic content warning was applied to some of the pictures.
This was a problem prior to 2020, but when the war in the northern Tigray region broke out in November of that year, the amount of violence making its way into people's newsfeeds increased dramatically., to review how the platform has been used to spread hate speech and add to the violence., saying it would assess the feasibility of such a review - and that it had previously conducted multiple forms of human rights due diligence related to Ethiopia.
Some good can come when public attention is drawn to heinous human rights abuses, but content like this can also be used to whip up anger and place blame on specific ethnic groups or individuals.
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