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In a systematic campaign over more than five years, Myanmar military used Facebook to covertly spread propaganda, mostly against the Rohynga, via accounts that appeared to be dedicated to pop stars and entertainment, turning the social media site into a tool for ethnic cleansing. Having garnered a mass following, the military operatives then used the pages to distribute false news, and spread hostility and division. In one campaign in 2017, the military's intelligence group sought to convince…
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In June 2018, human rights and digital rights activists in Myanmar called on Facebook to raise its level of moderation of Burmese-language content in order to reduce hate speech, which they said was at high risk of sparking open violence. In Myanmar, decades of civil war and the end of military rule had led to a humanitarian crisis that sent 900,000 Rohynga fleeing the country and that United Nations investigators called "ethnic cleansing" and suspected genocide. Because Facebook is pre-…