A series of Facebook groups in Vietnam stopped working

"We have suspended your group," a notice sent by Facebook to the administrator accounts of many groups on the afternoon of June 24.

Notice sent to admin of a Facebook group on June 24.

Phi Phi, the administrator of a group that has been active for nearly 10 years with hundreds of thousands of members, said she was suddenly suspended by the platform, but did not give a reason. The group was also labeled as "dangerous individuals and organizations" and removed from Facebook.

"I am filing a complaint with Facebook, but I don't know the outcome yet," she said.

The situation has been widely reported since this afternoon. Ngo Minh Hieu, administrator of several Fanpages and Groups specializing in cyber security, said he also encountered problems with a series of pages and community groups. In addition to being suspended, two groups he is an administrator of were even asked to change their names. When accessing, the group name is "Group title pending".

Many Fanpages and Groups had problems on the afternoon of June 24.

"It is not clear whether it is a technical error of the platform or a group is exploiting the platform error to report in bulk. We have contacted Meta to handle it," he said. In addition, the security expert also noticed that many individuals were abusing this incident to make Reports (send reports) to cause Groups and Fanpages to be locked, then offer rescue services.

Besides groups, some administrators have encountered situations where their personal accounts have limited features, such as not being able to send messages, and Fanpages linked to groups are also locked.

Faced with this phenomenon, many administrators proactively disabled the group's activity feature. "It's possible that Facebook is conducting a campaign to scan accounts in Vietnam. This situation sometimes happens, so we temporarily suspended activities to 'avoid the storm'," said an admin.

Meta has not commented yet.

A Facebook group is inactive.

The problem is not only happening in Vietnam. On the social network Reddit on the afternoon of June 24, many administrators said their groups were suspended for unknown reasons. The situation is happening a lot in Southeast Asia, such as Vietnam and Indonesia. In addition, the system that specializes in monitoring the activities of Internet services Downdetector also recorded a spike in the number of error reports on the Facebook platform.

In 2022, a series of Facebook accounts of users in Vietnam and around the world were also locked, and could not even be appealed. Facebook's spokesperson at that time admitted that the cause was due to technical problems, causing users to have trouble accessing the social network. In recent years, many people have also reported that Fanpages and Groups were suddenly locked in batches for unknown reasons. Some later appealed successfully and became active again. Meta usually does not give a reason for this.

According to VnExpress

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