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• @samfbiddle Sam Biddle on x

  This Facebook group is regularly used to track down the whereabouts of Vietnamese political dissidents, some of whom are then jailed or worse. Members of the group gleefully share pics of their targets in police custody. FB says this is all allowed https://theintercept.com/...

• @maikhoioi Mai Khoi on x

  Congresspeople, as you move to regulate Facebook, please do not fall for Zuckerberg's lie that he is “protecting free expression”. Facebook is working hand-in-hand with the Communist Party of Vietnam to censor social media and enable right abuses. Full story below 👇 https://twitt…

• @miketatarski Michael Tatarski on x

  “With the internet dominated by Facebook, traditional media dominated by the state, and the former unwilling to disturb the latter, there's often simply nowhere left for Vietnamese dissidents to go.” https://theintercept.com/...

• @amnestyusa @amnestyusa on x

  “Instead of seeking to weaponize these platforms, the Vietnamese authorities should stop punishing people simply for exercising their right to freedom of expression.” - Ming Yu Hah, Amnesty deputy regional director for campaigns. https://www.cnet.com/...

• @samfbiddle Sam Biddle on x

  I think it's important to say that this isn't a story about socialism or communism, it's a story about capitalism: Facebook is just openly betraying its stated values because it stands to extract a ton of money from Vietnam.

• @theintercept @theintercept on x

  Vietnamese singer and pro-democracy activist Mai Khoi has tried tirelessly to warn Facebook of a pro-government group of police, military, and other Communist party loyalists who collaborate to get dissidents booted and offline dissidents jailed. https://theintercept.com/...

• @fboversight @fboversight on x

  Last month, @amnesty released its report into censorship of expression in Vietnam. As of April 2020, Facebook agreed to ‘significantly increase’ its compliance with requests from the Vietnamese government to censor anti-state posts. Let that sink in. https://www.amnesty.org/...

• @amnestyusa @amnestyusa on x

  “Facebook has a clear responsibility to respect human rights wherever they operate in the world and Vietnam is no exception. Facebook is prioritizing profits in Vietnam, and failing to respect human rights.” - Amnesty deputy regional director Ming Yu Hah. https://www.cnbc.com/...

• @derektmead @derektmead on x

  Outrageous story of Facebook censoring Vietnamese people at the whims of partisan brigades https://theintercept.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @slpng_giants @slpng_giants on x

  .@Facebook is once again being weaponized by foreign governments against their own people. It's as if the genocide they touched off in Myanmar never happened. If you work at Facebook, this is what you're supporting. #stophateforprofit @FBoversight https://twitter.com/...

• @samfbiddle Sam Biddle on x

  For over two years, Vietnamese musician and activist Mai Khoi has been trying to get Facebook to shutter a private group that censors political speech and collaborates to jail dissidents. She says the company has done nothing but mislead and ignore her. https://theintercept.com/.…

• @theintercept @theintercept on x

  Facebook lets Vietnam's troll army target dissidents, rejecting a celebrity's plea https://theintercept.com/... by @samfbiddle