Myanmar navy junta chief Min Aung Hlaing yesterday woke up to see his partly-owned telecom firm Mytel being faraway from Facebook as Meta began to ban companies related to Tatmadaw, also called the navy, from functioning on its platform.
The move got here just hours after attorneys from the US and the UK launched a $150 billion lawsuit on behalf of Rohingya refugees, alleging that the social media network was used to foment violence towards the minority inhabitants.
Rights groups and UN investigators have been calling out Meta, formerly generally known as Facebook, to take down Myanmar military-associated businesses from promoting on its platform, which is a go-to social media that cannot be ignored within the Southeast Asian country, since February.
More than 730,000 Rohingya individuals have fled Rakhine State since August 2017 because of military-led mass executions, gang rapes, and arson as part of a genocidal marketing campaign.
A Facebook worker advised local media outlet Myanmar Now that the agency has taken motion against “hundreds” of further accounts and pages tied to military-controlled enterprises, together with Mytel.
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“This motion relies on considerable proof by the international group and civil society of these corporations’ direct participation in supporting the Tatmadaw.”
The Facebook page of the military-run beverage business Myanmar Beer was also taken down, but a quantity of of his smaller telecom accounts, such as the company’s customer service page, remained lively. But they’d be removed as soon as potential, a Facebook official added.
Facebook has been accused of enjoying a vital role in propagating hate speech that fueled the violence in the Rohingya crisis in 2018..