“About Us” sections for the websites padaethar[.]com, onlinehartha[.]com, luponews[.]com and alinnpya[.]com,
showing the identical wording.
Searching for this text revealed both a number of live websites based on Wordpress, and a
number of sites that were no longer online. As of October 21, 2020, the search for this phrase
returned just over 1,500 hits. While some of these were duplicative, the figure indicates the
frequency with which the same phrase was re-used across different spammy sites.
Results of G
oogle search, October 21, 2020.
The defunct domains included bamakhit[.]com, a website which was listed in the “About” section
of one page in this takedown, and hlataw[.]com, a domain name that was active in 2018, but
which was also listed in the “About” section of a page in this takedown. In each case, by the time
of the takedown, the page had shifted to sharing content from another website: the page that
claimed bamakhit[.]com primarily posted articles from dnaekhitmedia[.]com, while the page that
claimed hlataw[.]com primarily posted articles from burmese[.]asia. In another case of
domain-shifting, a number of pages that were taken down shared links to the website
shwewiki[.]com, but the page called Shwe Wiki Myanmar itself primarily shared content from
thuta[.]org, even though it pointed to shwewiki[.]com as its own domain.
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