Facebook removed the homepage of Myanmar’s military website on Sunday, in line with the country’s military’s standards prohibiting incitement to violence, Reuters reported. This comes a day after police killed two protesters during an anti-coup demonstration on Feb. 1, 2021.
A Facebook representative said in a written statement, “In accordance with our global policy, we have removed the Tatmadaw True Information Team Page from Facebook for repeatedly violating our community standards prohibiting incitement to violence and coordinated harm. “
The Burmese military is known as “Tatmadaw. There was no available “True Information” page on Sunday.
Police and soldiers fired on demonstrators Saturday in Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city, to protest the overthrow of the democratically elected Aung San Suu Kyi government, the bloodiest day of protests that have lasted more than two weeks, Myanmar emergency workers said.
Facebook, which has come under international criticism in recent years for failing to stop online hate campaigns, began engaging with civil rights activists and pro-democracy parties in Myanmar and pushing back the military.
In 2018, it banned the and organizations of the army chief, now military ruler Min Aung Hlaing, and 19 other top officials, and pulled down hundreds of pages and accounts managed by the military, citing coordinated inauthenticity.
In the run-up to the November election, Facebook announced that it had taken down a bogus account and page operated by 70 military personnel that posted positive content about the military or criticism of Aung San Suu Kyi and her party.
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