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Facebook Bans All Myanmar Military, Related Entities After Coup Bloomberg 25/02/2021 Vlad Savov
(Bloomberg) Facebook Inc. has widened a ban on pages linked to Myanmar’s military and barred advertising from affiliated commercial entities, stepping up its opposition to the coup in the Southeast Asian nation.
The Menlo Park, California-based social media giant’s ban extends to Instagram as well as Facebook and includes military-controlled state and media entities, building on earlier suspensions of pages linked to the armed forces.
Treating the situation as an emergency, Facebook has been mobilizing Myanmar nationals with native-language skills to help moderate content, putting additional protections in place for journalists and curbing the reach of military spokespeople and misinformation. Myanmar’s ruling regime had earlier this month called on internet service providers to block access to Facebook.