Thailand’s government plans to ask a court to shut down Meta’s Facebook in Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy if it is found guilty of scams affecting more than 200,000 people, the country’s digital minister said on Monday. Fails to process.
Speaking to the international media agency Reuters, Chaiwut Thanakamanusorn said: “We are asking the court to shut down Facebook, it will not be allowed to provide services in Thailand, if it allows these fake pages to be used by people. Allow to deceive”.
The Ministry of Digital Economy and Society said it had repeatedly urged Facebook to remove ads it identified as scams, but no action had been taken, and that it would now go to court. will interfere with
Meta did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
Ministry spokesman Wetang Phuangsup said authorities are currently gathering evidence of wrongdoing by Facebook that will be presented in court.
He added: “If there are too many wrongdoings, the court can shut down pages and accounts. Or the court can shut down the entire platform.”
Scams on Facebook include luring users to invest in fake companies, fake government entities like the Securities and Exchange Commission, and trading in digital currencies, the ministry said.
“They can’t do business like this,” Chaiwut said.
