As COVID-19 infections surged in Malaysia this year, a wave of hate speech and misinformation aimed at Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar began appearing on Facebook.
Alarmed rights groups reported the material to Facebook. But six months later, many posts targeting the Rohingya in Malaysia remain on the platform, including pages such as "Anti Rohingya Club" and "Foreigners Mar Malaysia's Image" — although those two pages were removed after Reuters flagged them to Facebook recently.
Comments still online in one private group with nearly 100,000 members included "Hope they all die, this cursed pig ethnic group."