claiming that the company is working on releasing its own internal investigation. On December 8th, a U.S judge voided a previous order to Meta to hand over Facebook messages sent from government military accounts, ruling that they were private conversations and protected, even if they contain evidence of genocide. Activists are not giving up, and lawyers representing Rohingya victims of violence moved to sue Facebook for over $150 billion in December 2021: “A U.S. class-action complaint, filed in California by law firms Edelson PC and Fields PLLC, argues that the company's failures to police content and its platform's design contributed to real-world violence faced by the Rohingya community.” In the days following the coup, Sonny Swe, editor of the magazine Frontier Myanmar, warned: “What I can tell you now is that Facebook is very very poisonous. It is good to use Facebook for very peaceful demonstrations as long as people are reading ‘real’ news on Facebook. But then it’s quite dangerous. Disinformation, misinformation and hate speech are getting more and more powerful.” Facebook is at the center of a new controversy after the rights group Global Witness found that its algorithm was promoting posts in breach of its own policies that incited violence against anti-coup protesters in June 2021. In early October, youth activist Robert Minn estimated that more than 5,000 military propaganda accounts had been created on the platform since February 1st: "They set up a profile with a fake name and a picture of someone else framed by a filter in support of the National Unity Government of Myanmar (NUG). Then they start spreading fake news such as villages being burned down by PDF, without mentioning any location and which have been debunked by fact-checking." On October 7th, the SAC Ministry of Information ordered all government departments to open two accounts to spread anti-NUG military propaganda news on Facebook. Pictures leaked on Myanmar Now from the Taungoo Air Force Base showed officers' daily reports of how many 'likes,' 'comments' and 'shares' their prescribed posts gathered. Twitter User @pyaezone [3] compiled a list of pro-military groups. In an interview, @pyaezone explained what is happening in these groups: "The first step is to infiltrate their filter bubble is to join pro-military groups (i.e groups that have တပ်မတော် in their name – ‘Tatmadaw’) and like their pro-military pages. Next, add soldiers, police as well as people with Buddha images on their profiles found on those groups and pages. Facebook will then start suggesting you with similar profiles in the ‘People you may know’ list where 99% of whom are soldiers/policemen or far-right extremists. Another problem with the Facebook algorithm is that it shows you content from your friends or pages/groups you followed first. That means when you search for a keyword like ‘Rohingya’, you will only see disinformation from pro-military accounts and there will be no reliable news sources. Another subtle military psy-war tactic is to influence one's audience by posting eye-catching/sentimental content to attract more followers. Once they gained enough followers, the pro-military influencers will start feeding their followers disinformation. To sum it up, Facebook algorithms are still helping the Myanmar military spread its slander/disinformation campaigns against its people and the civilian government. From what I’ve seen, Facebook is doing next to nothing to safeguard the truth, democracy, and freedom". 8