2/24/25, 3:20 PM Digital Hate: Monthly Update for January 2025 1. Introduction Myanmar is a multi-ethnic and multi-religious country, and hate speech is one of the biggest threats to preserving peace and harmony in the society. Discrimination and false accusations against minority ethnic and religious communities fuel ethnic and religious tensions and increase the spread of hate speech. The junta and the military are manipulating ethnic and religious differences to control the public. They always manipulate the lack of general knowledge among the people in society due to the disqualified education system, to normalize discrimination and spread hate speech. 2. Research Methodology As hate speech is a term that comes from emotion, there is a wide spectrum in defining it, not a specific one. BHRN, therefore, standardized the definition of hate speech for this report as follows. Hate speech in this report means aggressiveness and hatred against protected characteristics of a person or a group, blaming, discriminative expression, writing, gesture, or art expression of excoriation, or dehumanization. https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Digital-Hate--Monthly-Update-for-January-2025-.html?soid=1129958286276&aid=Cmj0phAunzg 3/35