Government press conference on June 4 at which it promised citizenship for the Rohingya, MNP published several misleading posts on its Telegram channel. It accused media outlets of taking bribes to spread the “fraudulent ethnic name” of the Rohingya. The outlet also referred to common nationalist conspiracies, such as that the Organization of Islamic Cooperation had been pressuring media and pro-democracy activists to accept the Rohingya, and reiterated that there is no such thing as a Rohingya ethnic group. The OIC is an inter-governmental organisation of countries with significant Muslim populations that was formed to “protect the interests of the Muslim world”. The bloc has been fiercely critical of Myanmar’s treatment of the Rohingya – it initiated the process that led to The Gambia filing a genocide case against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice – and consequently many unfounded conspiracy theories about its activities have taken root in nationalist and even mainstream circles. Similar claims were made by a Telegram user called Sergeant Phoe Si, who accused the OIC of funding anti-military revolutionaries, comparing attacks from pro-democracy armed groups to “jihadist attacks”. In another post, he falsely claimed the “NLD worked hand in hand with the OIC to stay in power.” In fact, the NLD had a contentious relationship with the OIC, due to its decision to defend the military’s atrocities against the Rohingya. After Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, fell to the Taliban in mid-August, Sergeant Phoe Si posted a conspiracy-riddled message on Telegram about the implications for Myanmar. He asserted that between 2014 and 2021, Myanmar’s Muslim population rose from 2.1 percent to 4.3 percent and 5,000 new mosques were built. The latter number seems to be taken from the 2014 census, not 2021 as claimed, based on an estimation of Myanmar’s Muslim population. Credible estimates on the number of mosques in Myanmar are difficult to find, but the locally based Islamic Council said in 2019 there were 1,000 mosques in the entire country outside of Rakhine State. This makes it unlikely 5,000 new mosques have been built, particularly as Muslims have had difficulty reopening old mosques that were closed after sectarian violence in multiple regions, or even renovating existing mosques. Citing the statistics supposedly showing an increase in the Muslim population, Sergeant Phoe Si predicted a “major conflict for Burma in the future”. The post also claimed that Myanmar is likely to become a major market for weapons sales by the Taliban, who have come into possession of many weapons and left behind by the US forces.