Facebook raises investment for language expertise to check hate speech from Sri Lanka

Social media giant Facebook has increased investment to enhance its expertise in Sri Lanka’s local Sinhala and Tamil languages in an attempt to curb hate speech originating from the country through the platform, according to a media report on Thursday. As per Facebook’s latest community standards enforcement report, the social media platform removed four million pieces of hate speech globally from the platform in the first quarter of the year. “We have invested heavily on Sinhala and Tamil language expertise as we have promised. We significantly ramped up our language expertise in Sri Lanka through hiring more experts after the Digana riots,” a spokesperson of the social media giant here was quoted as saying by the Daily Mirror.