Files Myanmar Policy 
The Verge
OCTOBER 27, 2020
India’s ET Now is reporting that Ankhi Das, the Facebook policy chief for India, has resigned her position after months of escalating pressure from activists. In August, she filed a criminal complaint against a string of critics , alleging that their posts constituted criminal intimidation.
The Verge
AUGUST 24, 2020
That’s despite potential human rights abuses that may arise like the catastrophic episode in Myanmar, where ruling members of the military used hate speech on Facebook to promote its real-world genocide of the minority Muslim Rohingya population.
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The Verge
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
A coalition of civil rights groups are calling for Ankhi Das, Facebook’s public policy chief in India, to step down in the face of growing sectarian conflict in India. To break that pattern, the groups demand the immediate removal of Ankhi Das, Facebook’s embattled public policy chief for India.
The Verge
JANUARY 25, 2021
On January 6th, WhatsApp users around the world began seeing a pop-up message notifying them of upcoming changes to the service’s privacy policy. The resulting furor sparked a backlash that led Facebook-owned WhatsApp to delay the policy from taking effect until May. It’s not only that Signal doesn’t have these policies in place.
Mashable Tech
MARCH 18, 2025
That isn't the case with Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams, former and first head of global policy at Facebook. The UN has traced Myanmar's 2017 genocide to Facebook posts which the company belatedly took down.) Back in the U.S. Meta has denied the allegations.
The Verge
OCTOBER 25, 2021
The files contain a wealth of documents describing the company’s internal research, its efforts to promote users’ safety and well-being, and its struggles to remain relevant to a younger audience. A consortium of news organizations, including Platformer and The Verge , has obtained the redacted versions received by Congress.
The Verge
AUGUST 20, 2020
Facebook also took down thousands of accounts, pages and groups as part of what they called a “policy expansion,” seeking to limit violent rhetoric tied to QAnon, political militias and protest groups like antifa. But coded messages are harder to discern, particularly by policy teams that have not invested in unscrambling them.
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