{"id":2547,"date":"2021-12-04T09:42:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T08:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/12\/04\/u-s-commission-dings-facebook-in-report-calling-for-social-media-to-fight-religious-hate-speech-washington-times\/"},"modified":"2021-12-04T09:42:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T08:42:40","slug":"u-s-commission-dings-facebook-in-report-calling-for-social-media-to-fight-religious-hate-speech-washington-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/12\/04\/u-s-commission-dings-facebook-in-report-calling-for-social-media-to-fight-religious-hate-speech-washington-times\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. commission dings Facebook in report calling for social media to fight religious hate speech &#8211; Washington Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p>           <strong class=\"dropbtn\">Sign In<\/strong>         <br \/><a href=\"\/newsletters\/manage\/\" style=\"color: #fff;\">Manage Newsletters<\/a><br \/><a href=\"\/news\/2021\/dec\/3\/what-darrell-e-brooks-tells-us-about-build-back-be\/\" title=\"What Darrell E. Brooks tells us about &#8216;Build Back Better&#8217;\">What Darrell E. Brooks tells us about &#8216;Build Back Better&#8217;<\/a><br \/><a href=\"\/news\/2021\/dec\/3\/higher-employee-costs-are-looming-for-small-busine\/\" title=\"Higher employee costs are looming for small businesses in 2022\">Higher employee costs are looming for small businesses in 2022<\/a><br \/><a href=\"\/news\/2021\/dec\/2\/roe-on-death-watch\/\" title=\"Roe on death watch\">Roe on death watch<\/a><br \/>The <a href=\"\/topics\/us-commission-on-international-religious-freedom\/\">U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom<\/a> has admonished <a href=\"\/topics\/facebook\/\">Facebook<\/a> for not doing enough to protect Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar from hate speech.<br \/>The independent federal commission slapped the social media giant in a report Friday titled &#8220;Protecting Religious Freedom Online\u201d that more widely called for regulators of online speech to respect rights of religious expression.<br \/>The six-page report called out <a href=\"\/topics\/facebook\/\">Facebook<\/a> for its \u201cfailure to address incitement against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar,\u201d which it said was an example of an \u201cinsufficient response\u201d by the social media giant.<br \/>Myanmar&#8217;s military crackdown in 2017 against Rohingya Muslims, including alleged mass killings and rapes, drove more than 700,000 Rohingya into exile in neighboring Bangladesh. The refugee crisis and reported attacks on Rohingya, which human rights groups say is genocide, continue to this day.<br \/><a href=\"\/topics\/meta\/\">Meta<\/a>, the parent company of <a href=\"\/topics\/facebook\/\">Facebook<\/a>, did not immediately respond to a request for comment by The Washington Times.<br \/>The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, a 1976 United Nations-passed document, protects freedom of expression as well as the freedom of religion or belief, the Friday report noted. Conflicts arise when religious free speech is classified as \u201chate speech\u201d by those who object to the expressed opinions.<br \/>\u201cMaintaining a high threshold to limit speech is essential to protecting both freedom of expression and religious freedom,\u201d the document stated. Incitement to genocide must be regulated, but governments \u201ccannot require that social media companies restrict expression that states themselves cannot directly prohibit,\u201d it said.<br \/>Among recommendations in the report, <a href=\"\/topics\/us-commission-on-international-religious-freedom\/\">USCIRF<\/a> suggests the federal government should publicly note \u201csocial media abuses by foreign governments that create a hostile environment to religious freedom and freedom of expression\u201d in bilateral talks as well as the State Department\u2019s annual International Religious Freedom Report.<br \/>Agencies should \u201cpromote counterspeech\u201d on U.S. government social media accounts to fight hate speech and fund programs to develop \u201cearly warning mechanisms\u201d to combat hate speech.<br \/>\u201cThe U.S. government can also play a vital role in ensuring that social media companies protect human rights and religious freedom,\u201d the fact sheet noted and urged the U.S. to work with other governments to promote responsibility by social media companies in complying with international human rights law.<br \/><em>&bull; Mark A. 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