Farouki wrote in his ruling: “Locking the requested content will lose the opportunity to understand how false information can lead to genocide,” he said, “The mantle of Facebook’s right to privacy is full of irony.”
Facebook has been accused of slow response to abusive posts describing Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar in non-human language, which helped to build support for the military repression that forced more than 740,000 persecuted minority members to flee the country in 2017.
In August 2018, UN investigators called for an international investigation and prosecution of the commander-in-chief of the Myanmar Army and five other senior military commanders. Genocide, Crimes against humanity and war crimes.
On the same day, Facebook banned senior generals from accessing its platform.
The Gambia has brought most of the Burmese Buddhists to the United Nations Supreme Court in The Hague, accusing them of violating the 1948 United Nations Convention on Genocide.
