Facebook has banned Myanmar's military from its platform following coup

A Myanmar protester makes the three finger salute during a demonstration against military coup in Yangon, Myanmar on February 7, 2021.
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Facebook has banned the Myanmar military from using its platforms, following a coup earlier this month.
The platform said the decision was made in acknowledgment of the military's "extreme human rights abuses."
Facebook was previously implicated as a tool in the military's persecution of the Muslim minority Rohingya popula