Case 1:20-mc-00036-JEB-ZMF Document 22 Filed 09/22/21 Page 6 of 32 land.) (I’m talking to you, national parties, MPs, civil societies, who are always opposing the President and the Government.) Id. at ¶ 705. The U.N. Mission determined that “[a]lthough this post was later deleted, the impact of a high[-ranking] official equating the Rohingya population with terrorism may have been significant ahead of the 2012 violence, which erupted a week later.” Id. at ¶ 706. Ultimately, “[t]his discourse created a conducive environment for the 2012 and 2013 anti-Muslim violence . . . and subsequent waves of State-led violence in 2016 and 2017.” Id. at ¶ 696. In August 2018, Facebook acknowledged that the “ethnic violence in Myanmar [was] horrific” and that Facebook was “too slow to prevent misinformation and hate.” Sara Su, Update on Myanmar, Facebook (Aug. 15, 2018), https://about.fb.com/news/2018/08/update-onmyanmar/. In August 2018, Facebook deleted and banned the accounts of key individuals and organizations in Myanmar—including the commander-in-chief of Myanmar’s armed forces and the military’s television network. See De-platforming Post. Facebook also deleted “seemingly independent news and opinion Pages [that] covertly push[ed] the messages of the Myanmar military.” Id. Facebook determined that Myanmar officials surreptitiously controlled these facially unassociated accounts, which qualified as “coordinated inauthentic behavior” in violation of Facebook’s terms of service. Id. In October and December 2018, Facebook deleted an additional 438 pages, 17 groups, and 160 Facebook and Instagram accounts, see id., for engaging in “coordinated inauthentic behavior” designed to perpetuate misinformation and hate speech targeting the Rohingya, see U.N. Report ¶ 1353. Facebook estimated that nearly 12 million people followed these accounts, groups, and pages prior to deletion. See De-platforming Post. In taking these actions, Facebook sought to “act against those [who] use[d] Facebook in ways that spread violence and enable[d] genocide.” HRIA at 27. Facebook preserved the content it deleted. See id. 6