Facebook Ordered to Release Records on Closed Myanmar Accounts

WASHINGTON—A federal choose ordered Fb Inc. on Wednesday to hand around documents associated to accounts it shut down in 2018 that were being joined to government-backed violence against the Muslim Rohingya minority in Myanmar, as the social-media large grapples with the outcomes content material on its system has in the actual world.

The ruling, by a justice of the peace choose in Washington, criticized Fb for refusing to offer the documents to international locations pursuing a circumstance against Myanmar in worldwide court, declaring enabling it to withhold them “would compound the tragedy that has befallen the Rohingya.”