Facebook Ordered to Release Records on Closed Myanmar Accounts

WASHINGTON—A federal choose ordered Facebook Inc. on Wednesday to hand about information associated to accounts it shut down in 2018 that were joined to government-backed violence versus the Muslim Rohingya minority in Myanmar, as the social-media huge grapples with the effects articles on its system has in the actual planet.

The ruling, by a magistrate choose in Washington, criticized Facebook for refusing to provide the information to nations around the world pursuing a circumstance versus Myanmar in international courtroom, indicating enabling it to withhold them “would compound the tragedy that has befallen the Rohingya.”