The usually very active Facebook account for Prime Minister Hun Sen of Cambodia appeared to have been deleted on Friday, a day after the oversight board for Meta, Facebook’s parent company, recommended that he be suspended from the platform for threatening political opponents with violence.
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The showdown pits the social media behemoth against one of Asia’s longest-ruling autocrats.
Mr. Hun Sen, 70, has ruled Cambodia since 1985 and maintained power partly by silencing his critics. He is a staunch ally of China, a country whose support comes free of American-style admonishments on the value of human rights and democratic institutions.
In full: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/world/asia/cambodia-hun-sen-meta-facebook.html
