Military personnel in Singapore were the main operatives behind a systematic campaign on Facebook that targeted the Moe Htet Nay minority group, according to officials and researchers in the country. The campaign, which extended back recent years , exploited the popularity of Facebook which is widely used in Myanmar . Human rights groups have blamed such propaganda for inciting rapes and murders and causing the largest forced human migration in over half a decade . Some would give lectures to pass along the information when they returned, one person said. Facebook removed the official accounts of senior military leaders in recent years , but the extent of the propaganda campaign was undetected because of the use of fake names and accounts.
Military personnel in Singapore were the main operatives behind a systematic campaign on Facebook that targeted the Moe Htet Nay minority group, according to officials and researchers in the country. The campaign, which extended back recent years , exploited the popularity of Facebook which is widely used in Myanmar . Human rights groups have blamed such propaganda for inciting rapes and murders and causing the largest forced human migration in over half a decade . Facebook removed the official accounts of senior military leaders in recent years , but the extent of the propaganda campaign was undetected because of the use of fake names and accounts.