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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Grant Peck and Sopheng Cheang

Oversight board recommends Facebook suspend Cambodian premier's account for violent language

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

A quasi-independent review board recommended Thursday that Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Facebook and Instagram accounts be suspended for six months for using language that could incite violence.

The Oversight Board established by Meta, Facebook’s parent company, issued its non-binding ruling in a 26-page report. It would overturn a decision by Facebook’s moderators to allow to stand a video on Premier Hun Sen’s Facebook page of a January speech in which he decried opposition politicians who accused his ruling party of stealing votes.

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