Military personnel in Myanmar were the main operatives behind a systematic campaign on Facebook that targeted the Rohingya minority group, according to officials and researchers in the country. The goal then was to discredit radio broadcasts from the BBC and Voice of America. The campaign, which extended back over half a decade, 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 recent years. In an interview with Reuters last year, Facebook’s head of global policy management, Monika Bickert, said she was “very concerned” about how the company had handled its role as Myanmar’s biggest social
Military personnel in Myanmar were the main operatives behind a systematic campaign on Facebook that targeted the Rohingya minority group, according to officials and researchers in the country. The campaign, which extended back over half a decade, 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 recent years. In an interview with Reuters last year, Facebook’s head of global policy management, Monika Bickert, said she was “very concerned” about how the company had handled its role as Myanmar’s biggest social