A new report has found that Facebook failed to detect blatant hate speech and calls to violence against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority in advertisements submitted to run on its platform. The report shared exclusively with The Associated Press showed the rights group Global Witness submitted eight paid ads for approval to Facebook, each including different versions of hate speech against Rohingya. All eight ads were approved by Facebook to be published. The ads were not published, but the results confirmed that despite its promises to do better, Facebook is not effectively preventing hate speech on its platforms. Experts say such ads continued to appear even though they played a role in acts of genocide against the Rohingya.
When Indonesian singer and influencer Syahrini last month announced a metaverse tour sold as non-fungible tokens (NFTs), they were sold out hours after the launch. Powered by cryptocurrency exchange firm Binance, the 17,800 NFTs came under three categories of increasing exclusivity. The most rare of the digital artworks contained Syahrini's signature phrase #CetarMembahana, which roughly translates to "so beautiful it's.
The metaverse is ripe for business opportunities, especially for small and medium enterprises, in the Philippines and the rest of Asia Pacific (AsPac), according to technology firm Meta (formerly known as Facebook). “We believe that the metaverse will be the single biggest opportunity for modern business since the creation of…