Facebook Inc has removed hundreds of additional accounts, pages and groups in Myanmar from its social networks after discovering what it called "coordinated inauthentic behaviour" and links to the country's military. Facebook said in a blog post late on Tuesday that it had removed 425 pages, 17 groups and 135 accounts from its social network and 15 accounts from its Instagram photo-sharing service. The shuttered pages included "seemingly independent news, entertainment, beauty and lifestyle Pages were linked to the Myanmar military" and other pages removed in August, Facebook said. The UN fact-finding mission singled out Facebook for criticism over its failure to address hate speech in Myanmar. Facebook said in November a human rights report it commissioned showed it had not done enough to prevent its social network from being used to incite violence in Myanmar.

Source: dna December 19, 2018 04:41 UTC