News Forum - Meta bans Myanmar military-owned telco from Facebook

[Thaiger]

Myanmar’s military junta chief has woken up to find his partly-owned telecom company Mytel being barred from Facebook as Meta, Facebook and Instagram’s new company umbrella, is pulling the plug on business related to the Tatmadaw, the Burmese military. Facebook has nearly 29 million users in Myanmar, in a country with a population of 54 million. Mytel is on of four major telecommunications companies in Myanmar. Mytel is operated in a joint venture between the Burmese military and Viettel, owned by Vietnam’s Ministry of National Defence. Now Meta has announced that it is banning Burmese military-controlled businesses from the Facebook […]

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[Jason]

Although I applaud this move by Meta, there are plenty of other examples where Meta has allowed things when it shouldn't have.