Facebook’s Role in the Genocide in Myanmar: New Reporting Complicates the Narrative
Evelyn Douek Mon, Oct 22, 2018, 9:01 AM
Members of the Myanmar military have systematically used Facebook as a tool in the government’s campaign of ethnic cleansing against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority, according to an incredible piece of reporting by the New York Times on Oct. 15. The Times writes that the military harnessed Facebook over a period of years to disseminate hate propaganda, false news and inflammatory posts.