Facebook corrects incorrect information about sovereignty over Hoang Sa and Truong Sa

On the afternoon of July 2, many social media users said that when accessing the map in Facebook's advertising section, the two archipelagos of Hoang Sa and Truong Sa no longer belong to China as previously mistakenly stated.

Specifically, Facebook did not put the Hoang Sa - Truong Sa archipelago under Vietnamese or Chinese sovereignty, instead placing it under Chinese territory as before.

Mr. Le Quang Tu Do, Deputy Director of the Department of Radio, Television and Electronic Information (Ministry of Information and Communications) confirmed that Facebook representative had responded to this unit's request and said that the incorrect information had been corrected.

The map in Facebook's advertising section has corrected previous misinformation.

Mr. Doan Cong Huynh, Director of the Department of Foreign Information, said, "Facebook's reaction above is out of goodwill."

However, according to Mr. Huynh, because before, this social network had incorrectly identified the sovereignty of Hoang Sa - Truong Sa. Therefore, when making the correction, Facebook must speak up to correct and apologize, "only then can Facebook refute the incorrect information in the previous map, otherwise, China may use the old map on Facebook to include in the sovereignty profile to benefit them", Mr. Huynh commented.

In case the world's largest social network does not correct and apologize, Mr. Huynh said that the spokesman of the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs should speak up to confirm that Facebook's old map is worthless.

In recent days, many social media users in Vietnam have expressed their anger because Facebook incorrectly identified the sovereignty of the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos. Specifically, when they access the map in Facebook's advertising section, if they identify the area as Vietnam, the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos do not appear. However, when they identify the area as China, the two archipelagos appear on the map.

On July 1, the Department of Radio, Television and Electronic Information (Ministry of Information and Communications) contacted a Facebook representative to inform them of the incident and requested the company to take immediate measures to handle the wrong recording of Vietnam's Hoang Sa - Truong Sa map in Chinese territory.