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9/24/21, 7:33 PM Facebook shut down commercial disinformation network based in Myanmar and Vietnam | by @DFRLab | DFRLab | Medium The Page Transparency section for two of the assets. Note the shared creation date, shared renaming date, and the shared location and number of page administrators. (Source: @jean_leroux/DFRLab via Facebook) In addition to being created on December 14, 2018, Myanmar Telecom Promotions and Myanmar Internet & Telecom News were also renamed from their original page titles on the same date: March 10, 2019. The pages Myanmar Knowledge and Smart Life for Myanmar also shared a creation date: March 7, 2019. https://medium.com/dfrlab/facebook-shut-down-commercial-disinformation-network-based-in-myanmar-and-vietnam-d8c07c518c04 8/15

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Facebook shut down commercial disinformation network based in Myanmar and Vietnam

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Jean le Roux

Date Published: Feb 12, 2020

Abstract: On February 12, 2020, as a part of a larger takedown, Facebook removed 13 accounts and 10 pages linked to MyTel, a Burmese telecommunications company indirectly owned by the Myanmar and Vietnamese militaries, for engaging in “coordinated inauthentic behavior.” Of the 23 total assets within the Burmese set, the DFRLab had access to six of the pages prior to the takedown. These six presented themselves as neutral special interest pages focused on mobile technology but targeted the commercial opponents of MyTel and its sister company, MyTelPay, as well MyTel competitors’ users.

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