The profile pic of a Telegram user called “Sergeant Phoe Si”, who has used their account to accuse Muslim nations of funding anti-military revolutionaries, and likened the activities of pro-democracy armed groups to “jihadist attacks”. (Frontier) From journalism to Telegram The Maung Sue Hle account on Telegram is run by a former editor from Eleven Media named Ko Phyo Wai Win. Eleven is one of the country’s largest media organisations, and unlike many of its contemporaries has not been banned by the regime. In one Telegram post, Phyo Wai Win said that he had tried to edit a Wikipedia page to explain that the military came to power because of voter fraud, echoing the Tatmadaw’s justification for the coup (allegations of voter fraud were rejected by independent election monitors). Phyo Wai Win said in a Telegram post that he had been unable to alter the page because Wikipedia had banned his IP address from making edits for three years. Instead, he encouraged his followers to edit the page for him. “As we all know what started the coup, let’s fix it,” he wrote. Despite his apparent support for the regime, Phyo Wai Win insisted in an interview with Frontier that he criticises both sides and was even briefly arrested for taking pictures of the police in May. “If you do not support the NLD, you will be killed, but we face arrest if we criticise the SAC,” he said. The NLD had a poor record on media freedom, prosecuting journalists under various laws for social media posts and articles it deemed to be defamatory or destabilising. Phyo Wai Win himself spent several weeks in prison in late 2018 over a report on regional government spending. But far more journalists have been arrested and faced physical harm under the junta – the Committee to Protect Journalists said there were over 30 in prison as of July. Many have reported being tortured in detention, while others have been injured by security forces – including a Frontier journalist, who suffered a gunshot wound while covering a protest in Mandalay. Despite his claim to criticise both sides, Phyo Wai Win’s Telegram channel was previously named “maloenipawtwayleepal”, which roughly translates to “motherfucker NLD supporters fuck you”, and