Facebook ordered to release records on closed Myanmar accounts

A US judge has ordered Facebook to release records of accounts linked to government-backed violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar that it had shut down, the Wall Street Journal reported.

In his ruling on Wednesday, Washington DC district court Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui criticised the social media giant for refusing to provide the records to countries pursuing a case against Myanmar in the International Court of Justice, the Journal said. Facebook had resisted releasing the information on the grounds of US privacy law.