Facebook bans military accounts in Myanmar as UN accuses leaders of coordinating genocide
https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/27/17785522/facebook-myanmar-ethnic-violence-banned-accounts-military-genocide
Facebook has banned a number of high profile accounts in Myanmar that it says helped “inflame ethnic and religious tensions” in the southeast Asian country.
In a blog post, Facebook again admitted it had been “slow to act” to the situation in Myanmar, where the minority Muslim Rohingya population has been the target of a genocidal campaign fueled by propaganda spread on Mark Zuckerberg’s social network. In a report released by the United Nations today, investigators accused Myanmar’s military of orchestrating acts that “undoubtedly amount to the gravest crimes under international law,” including mass killings, gang rapes, and the destruction of entire villages.