Facebook removes main page of Myanmar military for 'incitement of violence'

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Facebook has come under heavy criticism for failing to contain online hate campaigns in Myanmar, despite having banned army chief Min Aung Hlaing — now the military ruler — in 2018.

Facebook has deleted the main page of the Myanmar military, citing its standards prohibiting the incitement of violence, a day after two protesters were killed when police opened fire at a demonstration against the February 1 coup.

"In line with our global policies, we've removed the Tatmadaw True News Information Team Page from Facebook for repeated violations of our Community Standards prohibiting incitement of violence and coordinating harm," a Facebook representative said in a statement.Its True News page was no longer available on Sunday.

 

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Fk face book

A foreign company should not above a local government. Every country please ban Facebook.

Oh FaceBugs , You done it again. !

Incitement of violence? I don't think the violence in Myanmar has anything to do with Facebook. Tatmadaw may be spreading misleading information on Facebook but clearly it is not incitement of violence. They simply don't need that, right? Sounds like kind of abuse of authority.

I don't get it. People on the Left have been saying for many months, they are a private company, and if people break their terms, they get removed. It has been supported for months, why the change now?

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