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.
The showdown pits the social media behemoth against one of Asia¡¯s longest-ruling autocrats.
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.
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