BANGKOK — Thai authorities Tuesday backed down on their threat to ban Facebook over posts deemed critical of the royal family after officials said the social networking giant had agreed to expunge such content. "Facebook is cooperating with Thailand," Takorn Tantasith, secretary general of the NBTC told reporters after the 10am deadline passed. Thai authorities last week previously said Facebook had already removed some 170 posts. The social network giant declined to comment on how many posts it had made unavailable in Thailand since the recent requests. According to its published data, Facebook made 50 posts unavailable to Thai users after requests from the government in 2016.

Source: The China Post May 16, 2017 06:00 UTC