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Burma’s hardline monks will dodge bans on Facebook and keep using the social media giant to “tell the truth,” they said on Friday, after it barred several Buddhist nationalists for hate messages targeting Rohingya Muslims.
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Burmese civil society groups on Wednesday welcomed a commitment by Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg to increase efforts to curb messages inciting violence, but urged the social media giant to deploy more resources in the Southeast Asian country.
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On the eve of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appearing before a US Senate panel, organisations in Burma have pushed back on his defence of the company’s efforts to mitigate hate speech online, sharing more damning material as evidence of the social network’s role in the Rohingya crisis.
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A Union minister told lawmakers on Monday that his ministry would spend more than 6.4 billion kyats ($4.8 million) to establish a social media monitoring apparatus.
UN human rights experts investigating a possible genocide in Burma said on Monday that Facebook had played a role in spreading hate speech there.
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Thailand has no immediate plan to block access to Facebook, the telecoms regulator said on Tuesday, as it expects the social media giant to comply with court orders for the removal of content deemed to threaten national security.
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The Pegu Division official subsequently lodged a complaint with police under Article 66(d) of the Telecommunications Law.
