Internet Freedom Campaign
Vital to Vietnam’s development, the Internet has the power to transform Vietnamese society; in many ways it already has. In…
February 20, 2025
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How tech companies enable censorship in Vietnam
Tech companies operating in Vietnam are urged to uphold global human rights standards and to protect the rights of their…
December 1, 2024
Real time online censorship in Vietnam
The Vietnamese government stepped up its online censorship as To Lam — general secretary and president of the Socialist Republic…
October 2, 2024
Censorship by other means: Case study of Facebook’s community standards in Vietnam
The Vietnamese government has traditionally censored the internet by blocking access to foreign-based websites, slowing down internet traffic, and directing…
December 18, 2023
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
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
Harmful network targets Vietnamese civil society: Facebook must take action
Starting around October 20, a sophisticated network of fake Facebook accounts have inundated the comment section of well known Vietnamese…
October 28, 2022