Facebook Inc. said Thursday that it has banned all pages linked to Myanmar's military as well as ads from military-linked companies, citing deadly violence following the Feb. 1 coup.Noting the ban also applies to their accounts on Instagram, the U.S. social media giant said in a statement, "We believe the risks of allowing the Tatmadaw on Facebook and Instagram are too great."Tatmadaw is the official name of the country's military.Roughly half of the country's 54 million people are said to use Facebook. The military has also used the social media platform for propaganda.Facebook cited the m…READ FULL ARTICLE
