9/24/21, 7:46 PM Investigation: A network of pro-military Facebook pages in Myanmar with Russian connections | by Aung Kaung Myat | annie lab | Medium Although these pages mainly feature frivolous content such as celebrity gossip and funny off-beat stories, often directly copied from other online media, they also post political commentaries and opinion pieces. This content supports the military and casts a negative light on the civilian government led by National League for Democracy (NLD) as well as on Muslims in the country including Rohingyas. This material is usually cross-posted simultaneously by the six pages. For example, when the Ministry of Education expelled a group of university students for holding a demonstration and demanding a budget increase in the education sector, all of them posted identical criticism of the NLD government at the same time. They listed the names of the students with a 2012 quote from Aung San Suu Kyi in which she supported university students and their right to free expression and autonomy. The posts accused the NLD-led government of “hypocrisy.” The six Facebook page posts are exactly the same. https://medium.com/annie-lab/investigation-a-network-of-pro-military-facebook-pages-in-myanmar-with-russian-connections-f6c15af3d26a 5/11