Facebook in Myanmar

The World

A report by the New York Times offers new information on the people behind Facebook propaganda campaigns that led to real-world violence in Myanmar. The World’s Marco Werman interviews the New York Times’ Paul Mozur, who reports that “members of the Myanmar military were the prime operatives behind a systematic campaign on Facebook that stretched back half a decade and that targeted the country’s mostly Muslim Rohingya minority group.”

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