The social media platform is widely used in Vietnam where, despite sweeping economic reform and increasing openness to social change, the ruling Communist Party continues to censor media tightly and does not tolerate criticism.
Hung was referring to government requests for Facebook restrictions, meaning a piece of content posted to the website which cannot be viewed in some countries because it is deemed to violate local laws.Facebook said in May it had increased the amount of content to which it restricted access in Vietnam by over 500% in the second half of 2018.Facebook did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
He also said that Vietnam has built a centre to monitor the content of news websites and social media platforms which can sort millions of data points into categories like “positive” and “negative”.