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The firm's announcement came a day after a group of Rohingya refugees sued Facebook's parent company for facilitating genocide.

The head of the state communications regulator was fired swiftly after popular social media sites and apps were restricted for failing to comply with data localization laws.

"This process is the same in Kazakhstan as it is for other countries around the world," a Meta spokesman told Reuters.

In giving the Kazakh government direct access to identify content as problematic, Facebook is empowering an autocratic government to further police what its citizens say. 

Internal company documents on India highlight Facebook's constant struggles in quashing abusive content.

In a ruling, the court stated that Facebook’s citing of a privacy provision to withhold the records from Myanmar was “rich with irony.”

The Taliban’s social media presence once again invites a debate on the repercussions of the technology industry’s role in world politics.

Whether or not it is enforceable, the move hints at Hanoi’s desire for tight control over what its citizens say and do online.

The Lao communist authorities fear that Facebook could become an incubator of anti-government sentiment.

The report observes that between 2017 and mid-2021, more than 150 influence operations networks on its platform attempted to target both foreign and domestic audiences.

The offending accounts targeted users in southern provinces that are home to a long-running Muslim separatist insurgency.