The Current for Dec. 10, 2021
Today on The Current:
Rohingya refugees from Myanmar are suing Meta Platforms Inc, formerly known as Facebook, for $150 billion US over allegations that the social media company did not take action against hate speech that contributed to violence against them. We discuss the case with Tun Khin, a Rohingya activist and the president of the Burmese Rohingya Organisation in the U.K.; Awista Ayazi, a lawyer working on the lawsuit against Facebook by Rohingya refugees; and Katie Harbath, a former Facebook public policy director and the founder and current CEO of Anchor Change.
Then, the federal government promised to release more residential school records. Some experts say the release of these documents is long overdue and vital to healing and reconciliation. We talk to Kukpi7 (Chief) Rosanne Casimir of Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation; and Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, a law professor, former judge and the director of the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre.
And journalists Luis Horacio Nájera and Peter Edwards say the new generation of organized crime in Canada is thriving in the digital world. They tell us more about that and their new book The Wolfpack: The Millennial Mobsters Who Brought Chaos and the Cartels to the Canadian Underworld.
