press release the company says it removed eighteen facebook accounts fifty two facebook pages which were followed by almost twelve million people and included in that list interesting they are government officials so mean mars powerful top military general was on that list as well as an account from the military's own television network so that's something we've actually never seen before essentially facebook wiping off government officials completely banning them from the platform facebook also admits here that they were too slow to take action and they say they're developing some new technologies some new strategies for identifying hate speech so they can take that down but for many this is simply too little too late so too slow to take action so then just walk us through what was their role in the violence over their alleged role in the violence against the road and how widespread was the problem it was a very widespread problem it still is a problem facebook has a lot of poisonous content in myanmar in fact there was a recent report by reuters that found more than one thousand posters probably far