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Mr Chaiwut said 70% of total fraud cheating people to invest in the country was carried out via Facebook’s sponsored pages. (Photo: Digital Economy and Society Ministry)

The Digital Economy and Society (DES) Ministry will request a criminal court order this month to shut down Facebook in Thailand, alleging that the platform has been an accomplice with scammers in deceiving people to invest with them.

The ministry will refer to the computer crime law in lodging the charge against the scammers and Facebook. It blames Facebook’s failure to help screen fraud via the scammers’ sponsored pages, although the ministry…

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