Facebook helped bring free speech to Vietnam. Now it’s helping stifle it.
When Facebook took off in Vietnam about a decade ago, it was like a “revolution,” said two of the company’s…
June 21, 2023
Tag: Force 47
Vietnam state trolls attack on April 30th
Every year, around April 30th (the date of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War), Viet…
May 22, 2023
The Vietnamese military has a troll army and Facebook is its weapon
Force 47 abuses Facebook's safety tools to silence government critics at home and anywhere in the world. The military-backed group…
May 11, 2023
How Vietnam’s state trolls are undermining free speech and democracy
Vietnam has deployed an army of online trolls and cyber troops who are spreading not just disinformation but also conducting…
March 27, 2023
Open letter calling on Facebook to “unfriend” harmful social networks in Vietnam
Facebook has revolutionized how we consume, create, and share information. But it has also increasingly become a tool to suppress…
February 1, 2023
#StopVNtrolls – Combatting Force 47 and Cyber Censorship
In a new report titled “#StopVNtrolls — Combatting Force 47 and Cyber Censorship”, Viet Tan exposes the harmful networks that…
January 30, 2023