Rohingya refugees filed a $150 billion lawsuit against Facebook over its failure to curb misinformation and hate speech on its platform, which “amounted to a substantial cause, and eventual perpetuation of, the Rohingya genocide” in Burma, also known as Myanmar. Lawyers in the United Kingdom and the United States launched legal campaigns against Facebook’s parent company, Meta, for the social media giant’s role in facilitating violence against the persecuted Muslim ethnic group in Burma. The complaint, which was lodged in a California court on Dec. 6, alleged that Facebook has “allowed the dissemination of hateful and dangerous misinformation to continue for years.” “Facebook has options for moderating its algorithms’ tendency to promote hate speech and misinformation, but it rejects those options because the production of more engaging content takes precedence,” the court document reads. The same document noted that Facebook arrived in Burma around 2011 and arranged for millions of …