Facebook to 'significantly reduce' Burma military content

The social media platform said in a Thursday blog post that it has put "several measures in place to support our community in Myanmar," or Burma, such as "the decision to significantly reduce the distribution of all content on Facebook Pages and profiles run by the Myanmar Military (“Tatmadaw”) that have continued to spread misinformation."

"We have also indefinitely suspended the ability for Myanmar government agencies to send content removal requests to Facebook through our normal channels reserved for authorities around the world," Facebook's director of policy for APAC emerging countries, Rafael Frankel, wrote in the post.