Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has urged Meta, which operates several social media and communication platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Messenger, and WhatsApp, to find an effective way to combat disinformation that disrupts social harmony and spreads hatred.
"This (disinformation) is a big problem. You must find a way to fight it," said the chief adviser when Simon Milner, VP, Public Policy, APAC at Meta, and Ruzan Sarwar, public policy manager, met him at the State Guest House Jamuna on Wednesday.
"Bangladesh is a densely populated country. One wrong word can destabilise the whole country. Some people do it deliberately," he said.
The chief adviser said Meta platforms, especially Facebook, have the potential to promote business growth, but at the same time, they can be potentially dangerous provided they do not maintain ethical standards.
Chief Adviser's Special Assistant on Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology, Faiz Ahmad Taiyeb, among others, was present at the meeting.
On Tuesday, the Meta officials held a meeting with the ICT ministry officials, where the Bangladesh side urged Meta to increase investment in Bangla LLM (Large Language Model) & AI-based sentiment analysis in Bangla, as well as to increase the number of human reviewers to tackle fake news and information.
