Facebook corrects incorrect information about sovereignty over Hoang Sa and Truong Sa
Following a request from Vietnam, Facebook has corrected incorrect information about the sovereignty of the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos.
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 the sovereignty of Vietnam or China instead of placing it under the Chinese area 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 responded to the request of this unit 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 response as above is in good faith."
However, according to Mr. Huynh, because previously, 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 spokesperson 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 that the company take immediate action to address the issue of incorrectly recording Vietnam's Hoang Sa - Truong Sa map as Chinese territory.