REFILE - CORRECTING GRAMMAR Vietnamese Facebooker and human rights activist, La Viet Dung, shows the open letter signed by himself sent to Facebook Inc.'s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, in Hanoi, Vietnam April 10, 2018. REUTERS/Kham NO SALES NO ARCHIVES
HANOI: Vietnamese human rights activists and independent media groups have written to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Inc's chief executive, questioning whether the social media platform was helping suppress dissent in the communist country.
The letter, released on Tuesday by US-based human rights group Viet Tan and signed by nearly 50 other groups, said Facebook's system of automatically pulling content if enough people complained could “silence human rights activists and citizen journalists in Vietnam”.
