February 12, 2021
Facebook says it has significantly reduced distribution of all content on pages and profiles run by the Myanmar military, the Tatmadaw, “that have continued to spread misinformation”. These accounts will not be recommended to people, it said on Thursday.
The rule will apply to Tatmadaw Information Team’s Facebook page and to the spokesperson for the Tatmadaw Brigadier-General Zaw Min Tun’s Facebook account, among “other military-run accounts”. The policy will be applied to “any additional pages” that the military “controls” that “repeatedly” violates the platform’s misinformation policies, said Rafael Frankel, Facebook’s Director of Policy for APAC Emerging Countries.