Facebook Inc (FB.O) has on Wednesday, removed hundreds of additional groups, accounts and pages from social networks in Myanmar after disclosed what the social media called “coordinated inauthentic behavior” and also links related to the military of the nation.
The social media has previously removed many accounts with including an account of army chief of Myanmar after he went on social media with criticism record amid Rohingya Muslims crisis and violence in the country.
On late Tuesday, Facebook, in a blog post, said that it had removed about 435 pages, 135 accounts and around 17 groups from its social media network and also around 15 accounts has been removed from its Instagram photo-sharing services.
According to news reports, Facebook said that social media continues to investigate many other pages that were “mislead others about who they are, or what they’re doing” and those which could breach the policy of company on misrepresentation.
Facebook said that the shuttered accounts and pages included “seemingly independent news, entertainment, beauty and lifestyle Pages were linked to the Myanmar military” and also other paged had been removed in August.
Myanmar government spokesperson Zaw Htay on Wednesday, resist answering to any calls to comment.
The removal of the Myanmar-linked pages in the month of August were followed by a UN fact-finding mission that has called for a top Myanmar general to be prosecuted over what it said that was a campaign of gang rape and mass killing against Rohingya carried out with the “genocidal intent”.
In 2017, Myanmar military has led a crackdown in the Rakhine state of Myanmar in response to the attacks led by Rohingya insurgents, which led 730,000 of Rohingya Muslims to find refuge in its neighboring countries like Bangladesh and India, according to the UN agencies.
The UN fact-finding mission has singled out the Facebook over criticism on its failure to address the hate speech in Myanmar.
In November, Facebook said that a human rights reports commissioned showed that it had not yet done enough to prevent and avoid its social network from being used as a violence platform to incite violence in the country Myanmar.