Changes to Facebook’s fact-checking and content moderation policies have made it easier for Myanmar’s regime to flood the platform with misinformation and propaganda, according to junta opponents and digital rights activists.
The shift has been especially noticeable over the past week, they say, as pro-regime accounts have proliferated to deflect blame for a deadly airstrike that killed 22 schoolchildren and two teachers in Sagaing Region’s Depayin Township on Monday.
“The number of comments from fake accounts has increased significantly. When you look at these comments, you find that the profiles are locked. The narratives they write don’t differ much from one another. Patterns like these have become quite noticeable,” said Nay Phone Latt, a prominent blogger who now serves. . .
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