9/24/21, 7:33 PM Facebook shut down commercial disinformation network based in Myanmar and Vietnam | by @DFRLab | DFRLab | Medium The typographical similarities in the posting conventions used by the pages in the network (right, top-center, bottom-center) and the official MyTel (top-left) and MyTelPay (bottom-left) Facebook pages. All these pages published posts in triplicate, clearly demarcated as Zawgyi (red boxes), Unicode (blue boxes), or English (green boxes) formatting. (Source: @jean_leroux/DFRLab via Facebook) Conclusion The examples provided above are representative samples taken from the pages in the network while they were still active. A much larger corpus of analysis informed these conclusions. Considered in isolation, any one of these links could easily be disregarded as mere coincidence. Taken together, however, each disparate example reinforced the links between MyTel and this network of inauthentic pages. Jean le Roux is a Research Associate, Southern Africa, with the Digital Forensic Research Lab and is based in South Africa. Follow along for more in-depth analysis from our #DigitalSherlocks. Facebook Social Media Myanmar Vietnam Telecom About Write Help Legal Get the Medium app https://medium.com/dfrlab/facebook-shut-down-commercial-disinformation-network-based-in-myanmar-and-vietnam-d8c07c518c04 15/15