Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has announced it has expanded its earlier ban on posts linked to the military of Burma, also known as Myanmar, to include all pages, groups, and accounts representing military-controlled businesses. Rafael Frankel, Asia–Pacific director of policy for Meta, said in a blog post on Dec. 8 that the company was taking 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.” The term “Tatmadaw” refers to the Burmese military. Frankel added that Burma’s military has “far reaching commercial interests which are not always possible to definitively determine” and so it is relying on the findings of a 2019 U.N. fact-finding mission to calibrate its expanded ban. The U.N. Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar has urged the international community to sever ties with Burma’s military and the extensive …