This is the first time a military or state actor has been banned from its platform, a Facebook spokesperson said. Facebook (FB) said that the ban applied to Myanmar Commander-in-Chief Senior-General Min Aung Hlaing as well as a military television network. International experts have pointed to Facebook as being a major source of misinformation and hate speech fueling violence against minorities in Myanmar. "While we were too slow to act, we're now making progress — with better technology to identify hate speech, improved reporting tools, and more people to review content." It said the pages, which claimed to be independent, had been used to push the message of the Myanmar military.

Source: CNN August 27, 2018 11:02 UTC