“I have decided to stop using Facebook, on which I have more than 14 million followers,” Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen told his followers on Telegram last week.
The announcement came just hours after the Oversight Board of Meta, Facebook’s parent company, recommended his account be suspended. But before Facebook could break up with him, the 70-year-old strongman ruler swiftly ditched the platform first.
Now, however, it seems like Hun Sen is finding it hard to recreate his popularity elsewhere.
While his Telegram channel, launched in May last year, has amassed close to a million followers, his one-week-old TikTok account sits at just about 100,000 followers—both a far cry from what he had with Facebook.
In full: https://time.com/6292120/cambodia-prime-minister-hun-sen-facebook-telegram-tiktok-followers/
