Facebook deletes Myanmar military account

After a military coup d'etat in Myanmar and multiple deaths among protesting demonstrators, it was discovered that Facebook had banned an official account for news distribution by the Myanmar military.

Facebook takes down main page of Myanmar military | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-myanmar-politics-facebook-idUSKBN2AL02N

Facebook bans Burma military | Boing Boing
https://boingboing.net/2021/02/21/facebook-bans-burma-military.html

In Myanmar, a coup d'etat by the armed forces occurred on February 1, 2021, and Internet regulations becameintensified . Among them, the connection to Facebook is also blocked by the order of the Ministry of Information and Communication of Myanmar.

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As of February 22, the coup and protests were fierce, with security forces firing on the demonstrators and three people already announced dead. In response to this situation, Facebook announced that it has deleted the Myanmar Army's Facebook main page.

In a statement, Facebook said, 'In compliance with international policy, we have violated our community standards that prohibit repeated incitement and attempted harm by violence,' the Tammadaw True News Information Team (Myanmar) The page of the military true news information team) has been deleted. ' Reuters called the Myanmar military for comment, but said there was no response.

Facebook has been internationally accused of becoming a hotbed of discrimination against the Rohingya ethnic minority who is persecuted in Myanmar, and in 2019, a large number of accounts related to Myanmar will be deleted. Then, on February 12, 2021, following a coup d'etat, the Myanmar Army announced content restrictions.