1/3/2024 0 Comments Facebook account switchbar![]() ![]() Chicago Mercantile: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. US market indices are shown in real time, except for the S&P 500 which is refreshed every two minutes. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account Last week, the board said Meta’s handling of calls for violence after the 2022 Brazilian election continued to raise concerns about the effectiveness of its election efforts. “This kind of face-off between Big Tech and a dictator over human rights issues is long overdue,” he said in a statement. Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director for Human Rights Watch, said Hun Sen had finally been called out for inciting violence. The board held that the video’s harms outweighed its news value.Ĭambodia’s government has denied targeting the opposition and says those subject to legal action are law breakers. Meta determined at the time that the video fell afoul of its rules, but opted to leave it up under a “newsworthiness” exemption, reasoning that the public had an interest in hearing warnings of violence by their government, the ruling said. The Cambodia case came after several users reported a January video where Hun Sen said those who accused his Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) of buying votes in a 2022 local election should file a legal case, or face a beating from CPP’s supporters. Meta reinstated the former US president’s account earlier this year. The board endorsed Meta’s 2021 banishment of former US President Donald Trump – the current frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination – after the deadly January 6 Capitol Hill riot, but criticized the indefinite nature of his suspension and urged more careful preparation for volatile political situations overall. The company’s election integrity efforts are in focus as the United States prepares for presidential elections next year. The decision is the latest in a series of rebukes by the oversight board over how the world’s biggest social media company handles contentious statements by political leaders and posts calling for violence around elections. ![]() There was no immediate government comment on the case on Thursday. Voice of Democracy, one of Cambodia's last independent media outlets, has been shut downĪ Meta spokesperson said the company had not suspended or removed his account. The prime minister – one of the world’s longest-serving leaders after nearly four decades in power – had said on Wednesday that he was switching from Facebook to the messaging app Telegram to reach more people, without mentioning the video.Ĭambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen in Phnom Penh on June 26, 2020. Hun Sen’s Facebook account appeared to go offline late on Thursday. ![]() Opposition and rights groups have said the poll will be a sham – accusations dismissed by the government. Meta, in a written statement, agreed to take down the video but said it would respond to the board’s recommendation to suspend Hun Sen after a review.Īny suspension would silence the prime minister’s Facebook page less than a month before an election in Cambodia. The board, which is funded by Meta but operates independently, said the company had been wrong not to remove the video after it was published in January. The oversight board for Facebook’s parent company Meta Platforms on Thursday said Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen should be suspended from the social media site for six months for posting a video violating rules against violent threats. ![]()
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