{"id":32096,"date":"2021-02-25T16:03:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T00:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32096"},"modified":"2021-02-25T16:03:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T00:03:07","slug":"facebook-bans-myanmars-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32096","title":{"rendered":"FACEBOOK BANS MYANMAR\u2019S MILITARY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook banned Myanmar&#8217;s military and military-controlled state media entities from its platform, the company said Wednesday evening, in the wake of a coup earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The update, including a ban on ads from commercial entities linked to the military, follows\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/wslzktfqjddbhthdbwgjjbzzjfbmdfdyysjqtnmdddgssd_jqqbvvjrjwbmbtrnqrjs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/wslzktfqjddbhthdbwgjjbzzjfbmdfdyysjqtnmdddgssd_jqqbvvjrjwbmbtrnqrjs.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1614383827180000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHAlC98IX3FP949IeeNqvapL2eISA\">restrictions<\/a>\u00a0Facebook put in place to reduce the distribution of content of pages run by Myanmar&#8217;s military after the country\u2019s democratic government was overthrown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvents since the February 1 coup, including deadly violence, have precipitated a need for this ban. We believe the risks of allowing the Tatmadaw on Facebook and Instagram are too great,\u201d Facebook\u2019s director of policy for Asia-Pacific emerging countries, Rafael Frankel, said in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/kslfwbtkplljzbzljrvppjffptjqltlggspkbdqlllvssh_jqqbvvjrjwbmbtrnqrjs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/kslfwbtkplljzbzljrvppjffptjqltlggspkbdqlllvssh_jqqbvvjrjwbmbtrnqrjs.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1614383827180000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFYwjKa0L7aP19RkUCV4UVUWc0bFA\">updated blog post<\/a>, referring to Myanmar&#8217;s military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook banned Myanmar&#8217;s military and military-controlled&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32097,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32096\/revisions\/32097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}