WASHINGTON—A federal decide purchased Fb Inc. on Wednesday to hand in excess of information related to accounts it shut down in 2018 that were connected to authorities-backed violence from the Muslim Rohingya minority in Myanmar, as the social-media big grapples with the consequences content material on its platform has in the real planet.
The ruling, by a justice of the peace decide in Washington, criticized Fb for refusing to give the information to international locations pursuing a case from Myanmar in intercontinental court, indicating allowing for it to withhold them “would compound the tragedy that has befallen the Rohingya.”