7 December 2021

We are expanding our ban of the Myanmar military (“Tatmadaw”) and will now also remove Pages, Groups and accounts representing military-controlled businesses. This builds on our existing ban on these entities advertising on Facebook, which was announced in February, and the various enforcement actions we’ve taken since then which are outlined below. 

We’re taking this latest action based on extensive documentation by the international community of these businesses’ direct role in funding the Tatmadaw’s ongoing violence and human rights abuses in Myanmar. This has formed the basis for escalating sanctions imposed by the US, EU, and other governments, and has been chronicled in painstaking reporting by civil society and human rights organizations. The Myanmar military has far-reaching commercial interests which are not always possible to definitively determine. So we are using the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar’s 2019 report on the economic interests of the Tatmadaw, as the basis to guide these efforts, in line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

Our team continues to monitor the situation on the ground in Myanmar and we will continue to take any action necessary to keep our community safe.