Facebook: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - Summary

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The text is a transcript of a segment from the show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, where he criticizes Facebook for its role in spreading hate speech and misinformation in countries like Myanmar, where it has contributed to ethnic violence and human rights abuses. He mocks Facebook's motto of "move fast and break things" and its failure to address the problem despite repeated warnings. He also makes jokes about Facebook's community standards, its mistranslations, and its users' lies. He ends with a parody of a Facebook ad that warns potential users that Facebook is full of and compares it to a toilet.

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1. Facebook has been in the news for concerns about privacy, fake news and Russian trolls.
2. More than half of Facebook's revenue comes from outside the US and 80% of its users live in foreign countries.
3. Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg pushed his idea that all connections are good connections with feel-good ads.
4. Facebook's early motto was "move fast and break things" and Zuckerberg admitted that they sometimes mess up and have to fix things.
5. Facebook has been accused of empowering authoritarians, spreading hate and inciting violence in countries like the Philippines, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia and Myanmar.
6. Myanmar is a majority Buddhist country with a long history of religious and ethnic tensions, especially with the Rohingya, a mostly Muslim group.
7. In 2017, the military executed a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya, killing around 10,000 people and displacing around 725,000 people to Bangladesh.
8. Facebook has been a useful instrument for those seeking to spread hate in Myanmar, according to independent UN investigators.
9. Hate speech against Muslims and the Rohingya flourished on Facebook, posted by military leaders, politicians and prominent Buddhist monks like Ashin Wirathu, who is known as the Burmese bin Laden.
10. Facebook failed to detect, flag and remove objectionable content in Myanmar due to its lack of compatibility with Burmese language fonts, its lack of translation of its community standards and reporting systems, and its lack of Burmese speaking content reviewers.