YANGON: Facebook has removed the page of a Myanmar monk once dubbed the "Buddhist Bin Laden" for his incendiary posts about Muslims, the company confirmed, as it faces pressure to clamp down on hate speech. A Facebook spokesperson told AFP late Monday that Wirathu's page had been removed. "Our Community Standards prohibit organizations and people dedicated to promoting hatred and violence against others", a Facebook spokesperson said in an email. The social media giant has faced calls to rein in hate speech on its Myanmar accounts for years, with pressure mounting during the Rohingya crisis. "They remove his account but not his videos, and his religious hate speeches, they are still on Facebook and his followers are spreading it," he said.

Source: New Strait Times February 27, 2018 10:41 UTC