BSR | Human Rights Impact Assessment: Facebook in Myanmar » 34 Linked to the impact by its products, services, operations, or business relationships, in which case the company should determine action, based on factors such as the extent of leverage over the entity concerned, how crucial the relationship is to the enterprise, the severity of the abuse, and whether terminating the relationship with the entity itself would have adverse human rights consequences. It is important to note that internet companies will often be linked to human rights impacts that they do not cause or contribute to. For example, internet companies may be linked to hate speech, child sexualabuse material, and hacking that takes place over their platforms, even though they do not cause or contribute to these adverse human rights impacts themselves. When a company is linked to human rights impacts, the UNGPs expect companies to take action, though the nature of the action will be very different than had the company caused or contributed to these impacts. Finally, and in line with Principle 19 of the UNGPs, we have considered the extent to which Facebook has leverage over the human rights impact, where leverage is defined ability to effect change in the wrongful practices of an entity that causes a harm. 6.2 FINDINGS We have published below a series of tables listing the priority human rights impacts identified, their severity for the rightsholder (i.e., scope, scale, remediability), and relevant company management factors (i.e., likelihood, level of attribution, extent of leverage) that influence our recommendations. The priority human rights impacts identified by BSR are security; privacy; freedom of expression, assembly, and association; children’s rights; nondiscrimination; standard of living; and access to culture. Several human rights impacts often identified for companies in HRIAs were not identified in this case for Facebook, including workplace health and safety, land rights, and labor rights. It should be noted that, while we have segmented risks this way in the assessment, these rights are highly interdependent and interrelated, with the improvement or deprivation of one right significantly affecting the others. 6.3 PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE IMPACTS The priority human rights impacts that follow in this section—and the BSR recommendations to Facebook contained in section 6—are focused on the future, rather than the past. However, it is essential to note that many of these potentially adverse impacts have happened in the past and are happening today, and as a result have significant influence on our assessment of the likelihood that they will occur in the future. Where relevant, we have noted this in the tables below.

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