hate speech on its platform in myanmar the company has banned a number of accounts including those of government officials accused of violating the platforms guidelines it comes on the heels of a united nations report sharply criticizing facebook for its failure to tackle hate speech and misinformation which it says incite violence against the rohingya people of media editor carl last man who is join. here in the studio who has been following this story very closely welcome to you karl so strong words from the united nations there what exactly has facebook done in response i mean very strong words and actually this is really just confirming what many experts been saying for months about what is going on there that facebook just essentially did nothing to stop the spread of hate speech in myanmar and you know that led to real world violence against the rogue injured people so yeah yesterday facebook finally did take some action and here's what they did they explained what they did in this