“Removing Myanmar Military Officials From Facebook,” Facebook Newsroom, August 28, 2018,
https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/08/removing-myanmar-officials/.
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Hannah Ellis-Petersen, “Facebook removes accounts associated with Myanmar military,” The Guardian, August 27, 2018,
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/27/facebook-removes-accounts-myanmar-military-un-report-genocide-rohingya.
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“Facebook closes some accounts of Myanmar hard-liners,” The Nation Thailand, June 9, 2018, https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30347347.
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Nathaniel Gleicher, “Taking Down More Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior in Myanmar,” Facebook, August 21, 2019,
https://about.fb.com/news/2019/08/more-cib-myanmar/.
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“Removing More Dangerous Organizations from Facebook in Myanmar,” Facebook Newsroom, February 5, 2019,
https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/02/dangerous-organizations-in-myanmar/.
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“Myanmar’s media not free or fair,” Free Expression Myanmar, May 3, 2020, http://freeexpressionmyanmar.org/myanmars-media-not-free-orfair/.
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“Myanmar’s media not free or fair,” Free Expression Myanmar, 2020, http://freeexpressionmyanmar.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/myanmarsmedia-not-free-or-fair.pdf.
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Personal communication with the authors of an upcoming report on cyber harassment of women activists in Myanmar, Yangon, May 2018.
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See recent discussions at the Myanmar Digital Rights Forum in Yangon, February 28-29, 2020.
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“Telecommunications Law – Law. No. 31/2013,” Free Expression Myanmar, October 8, 2013, http://freeexpressionmyanmar.org/wpcontent/uploads/2017/07/telecommunications-law-en.pdf.
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For example, Article 77 gives the government powers to stop or prohibit any type of communication.
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“Telecommunications Law – Law. No. 31/2013,” Free Expression Myanmar, October 8, 2013, http://freeexpressionmyanmar.org/wpcontent/uploads/2017/07/telecommunications-law-en.pdf.
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“Blocking of 230 websites in Myanmar based on directive from the authorities,” Telenor, April 22, 2020,
https://www.telenor.com.mm/en/article/blocking-230-websites-myanmar-based-directive-authorities.
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Monika Bickert, “Publishing Our Internal Enforcement Guidelines and Expanding Our Appeals Process,” Facebook Newsroom, April 24, 2018,
https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/04/comprehensive-community-standards/.
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Discussions at the Myanmar Digital Rights Forum in Yangon on January 19, 2019.
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“Why are posts by Rohingya activists getting deleted?,” BBC News, September 23, 2017, https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-41364633.
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See for example the discussions that took place during the 2020 Myanmar Digital Rights Forum in Yangon, February 28-29. See also the case of San
Moe Tun [Kywe Wa Dana Tun], “Is Facebook’s bias a source of concern for Myanmar’s 2020 election?,” Eleven Media Group, February 11, 2020,
https://elevenmyanmar.com/news/is-facebooks-bias-a-source-of-concern-for-myanmars-2020-election-0. See also Julia Carrie Wong, Michael Safi,
and Shaikh Azizur Rahman, “Facebook bans Rohingya group's posts as minority faces 'ethnic cleansing',” The Guardian, September 20, 2017,
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/20/facebook-rohingya-muslims-myanmar.
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Civil society has repeatedly stated that Facebook’s lack of transparency is a substantive concern, see “RSF calls for more Facebook transparency on
Myanmar,” Reporters Without Borders, August 31, 2018, https://rsf.org/en/news/rsf-calls-more-facebook-transparency-myanmar; Russel Brandom,
“Activists from Myanmar and beyond call for Facebook to fix moderation,” The Verge, May 18, 2018,
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/18/17369570/facebook-coalition-myanmar-syria-sri-lanka-moderation-transparency-audit; Rebecca MacKinnon,
“Facebook is part of an industry-wide problem: lack of transparency about policies affecting users’ online rights,” Business & Human Rights Resource
Centre, [n.d.], https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/blog/facebook-is-part-of-an-industry-wide-problem-lack-of-transparency-about-policiesaffecting-users-online-rights/; Timothy McLaughlin, “How Facebook’s Rise Fueled Chaos and Confusion in Myanmar,” Wired, June 7, 2018,
https://www.wired.com/story/how-facebooks-rise-fueled-chaos-and-confusion-in-myanmar/; Dunstan Allison-Hope, “Our Human Rights Impact
Assessment of Facebook in Myanmar,” Business for Social Responsibility, November 5, 2018, https://www.bsr.org/en/our-insights/blogview/facebook-in-myanmar-human-rights-impact-assessment; Paul Mozur, “Groups in Myanmar Fire Back at Zuckerberg,” The New York Times,
April 5, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/technology/zuckerberg-facebook-myanmar.html.
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Discussions about the effectiveness of Facebook’s content moderation, Myanmar Digital Rights Forum, January 19, 2019.; Kyaw Ye Lynn and Su
Myat Mon, “On social media, cleaning up isn’t easy,” Frontier, December 28, 2018, https://frontiermyanmar.net/en/on-social-media-cleaning-upisnt-easy.
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For example, some pro-Rohingya activists believe that content removal trends demonstrate prejudices among content reviewers against Rohingya.
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“Telecommunications Law – Law. No. 31/2013,” Free Expression Myanmar, October 8, 2013, http://freeexpressionmyanmar.org/wpcontent/uploads/2017/07/telecommunications-law-en.pdf.
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For example, Article 77 gives the government powers to stop or prohibit any type of communication.
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“Telecommunications Law – Law. No. 31/2013,” Free Expression Myanmar, October 8, 2013, http://freeexpressionmyanmar.org/wpcontent/uploads/2017/07/telecommunications-law-en.pdf.
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“Blocking of 230 websites in Myanmar based on directive from the authorities,” Telenor, April 22, 2020,
https://www.telenor.com.mm/en/article/blocking-230-websites-myanmar-based-directive-authorities.
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Monika Bickert, “Publishing Our Internal Enforcement Guidelines and Expanding Our Appeals Process,” Facebook Newsroom, April 24, 2018,
https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/04/comprehensive-community-standards/.
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Discussions at the Myanmar Digital Rights Forum in Yangon on January 19, 2019.
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“Why are posts by Rohingya activists getting deleted?,” BBC News, September 23, 2017, https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-41364633.
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See for example the discussions that took place during the 2020 Myanmar Digital Rights Forum in Yangon, February 28-29. See also the case of San
Moe Tun [Kywe Wa Dana Tun], “Is Facebook’s bias a source of concern for Myanmar’s 2020 election?,” Eleven Media Group, February 11, 2020,
https://elevenmyanmar.com/news/is-facebooks-bias-a-source-of-concern-for-myanmars-2020-election-0. See also Julia Carrie Wong, Michael Safi,
and Shaikh Azizur Rahman, “Facebook bans Rohingya group's posts as minority faces 'ethnic cleansing',” The Guardian, September 20, 2017,
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/20/facebook-rohingya-muslims-myanmar.
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Civil society has repeatedly stated that Facebook’s lack of transparency is a substantive concern, see “RSF calls for more Facebook transparency on
Myanmar,” Reporters Without Borders, August 31, 2018, https://rsf.org/en/news/rsf-calls-more-facebook-transparency-myanmar; Russel Brandom,
“Activists from Myanmar and beyond call for Facebook to fix moderation,” The Verge, May 18, 2018,
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/18/17369570/facebook-coalition-myanmar-syria-sri-lanka-moderation-transparency-audit; Rebecca MacKinnon,
“Facebook is part of an industry-wide problem: lack of transparency about policies affecting users’ online rights,” Business & Human Rights Resource
Centre, [n.d.], https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/blog/facebook-is-part-of-an-industry-wide-problem-lack-of-transparency-about-policiesaffecting-users-online-rights/; Timothy McLaughlin, “How Facebook’s Rise Fueled Chaos and Confusion in Myanmar,” Wired, June 7, 2018,
https://www.wired.com/story/how-facebooks-rise-fueled-chaos-and-confusion-in-myanmar/; Dunstan Allison-Hope, “Our Human Rights Impact
Assessment of Facebook in Myanmar,” Business for Social Responsibility, November 5, 2018, https://www.bsr.org/en/our-insights/blogview/facebook-in-myanmar-human-rights-impact-assessment; Paul Mozur, “Groups in Myanmar Fire Back at Zuckerberg,” The New York Times,
April 5, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/technology/zuckerberg-facebook-myanmar.html.
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