Unable to share content on Facebook, MHT now posts to almost 13,000 subscribers on its Telegram channel, a dramatic reduction in reach compared to the over 240,000 followers it once had on Facebook. But its subscribers on Telegram are growing rapidly; just a month ago, it had barely 6,000. MHT posts both original content and articles from state media – the latter often passed off as its own work. On August 5, it sent a post to subscribers that said the military regime was continuing to accept returnees stranded abroad due to COVID-19. The post was attributed to “MHTnews”, but it had actually been copied and pasted directly from state media. While the content was broadly accurate, regurgitating state media reports without attribution benefits the military by presenting its propaganda as independent reporting. Other posts spread what appears to be disinformation. On July 24, MHT posted that NLD supporters broke into a home in Mandalay, robbing and stabbing the homeowner. While the robbery was reported by other media outlets, none reported that the thieves were NLD supporters or that there was any political connection to the crime. The MHT post provided no evidence to support its claim that NLD supporters were responsible. MHT has also continued to offer its Telegram subscribers the talk shows that were a mainstay of its Facebook page. One recent guest was pro-military social media influencer Shwe Yupar Oo. Since Facebook started banning many of Shwe Yupar Oo’s pages, she too has started a Telegram channel, which today has around 7,200 followers. In the recent MHT video, Shwe Yupar Oo says she was born into a military family and understands the “hard life and feelings of soldiers”. She defended the junta’s response to the COVID-19 crisis, which has been described as disastrous by most other observers, claiming that the military “cares a lot about the health of the people”. Shwe Yupar Oo even applauded the junta for providing oxygen to people in need, despite reports that security forces have banned private oxygen sales and sought to take over private oxygen plants. Some of her Telegram posts appear to be outright disinformation. In July, Shwe Yupar Oo wrote on her channel that five doctors who were arrested in North Dagon Township had been charging COVID19 patients K1 million to K1.5 million (approximately US$600 to $900) for treatment. “So the five greedy illegal doctors were arrested with 23 oxygen tanks,” she said. But she provided no evidence for this claim, and independent media reports said the doctors had been entrapped by the junta: after being called to what they believed was a COVID-19 emergency, they were instead arrested for participating in the Civil Disobedience Movement. Pro-military social media influencer Shwe Yupar Oo appears on Myanmar Hard Talk’s Telegram channel. (Frontier) Anti-Rohingya conspiracies Ultranationalist media outlet Myanmar National Post also has a presence on Telegram, which it uses to spread disinformation and anti-Rohingya conspiracy theories. In response to a National Unity