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Documents means hard copy documents; electronic documents (including those held on
computers, laptops, tablets, mobile phones, USB drives, or in online storage services);
emails; and other forms of electronic messages (including text messages and messages or
posts on any Facebook platform or other social media messages or posts). Documents
include internal emails, meeting notes, internal research, strategy and position documents,
advices including external third party advices (including experts and legal advices (so far as
they are not legally privileged)), and public relations.
Subject Matter means:
1.
The operation of the Facebook platform (including in relation to content
moderation) in, or in any way relating to, Myanmar since 2010.
2.
Policy in place (from 2010 to the present day) in relation to hate speech and
incitement of violence against the Rohingya people on the Facebook platform.
3.
Steps taken by Facebook in relation to allegations of hate speech and incitement of
violence against the Rohingya people on the Facebook platform including in relation
to:
4.
a.
complaints made about posts / groups / accounts that were allegedly antiRohingya; and
b.
content moderation decisions about posts / groups / accounts that were
apparently anti-Rohingya (those that were subject to complaints and those
that were not).
The extent to which the algorithm used by the Facebook platform encouraged
and/or encourages division, dispute and hatred, including in relation to:
a.
the question of whether Facebook knowingly ignored / deprioritised
concerns about the anti-Rohingya content on the Facebook platform for
financial or other reasons; and
b.
any analogous situations or investigations that would cast light on the
operation of the algorithm in this respect (i.e., any internal Facebook
research, any similar complaints, any evidence of internal concerns being
raised, any external complaints, any internal investigations etc).
Clearly, this list is not exhaustive and more detailed disclosure requests will be produced at
the appropriate times in the proceedings. We expect there to be many thousands of
documents that will touch directly on the issues of the Rohingya people and the campaign
against them and, similarly, many that address the issue of whether Facebook's algorithms
operated and/or operate in a way that contributed and/or contribute to violence, hatred
or harassment. We look to you to approach the issue of disclosure in the most open and
proactive manner, given the extraordinary interest of this matter to the Rohingya people
and society as a whole.
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