ISSUE: 2019 No. 36 ISSN 2335-6677 The NLD government’s own newspapers, radio, and television constantly cover the activities and perspectives of the ruling government in both English and in the Myanmar language. Those government-owned and government-run outlets have regular partisan content that understandably praises the government in power. But they do not run items that are highly critical of the military and other opposition forces and parties such as the USDP. The NLD also relies on private media outlets, but it has had its own problems with the latter over the decline in press freedom and the increase in the number of defamation cases and suits for the publication of state secrets filed against journalists.30 Therefore the natural partisan outlet for the government and its supporters has become Facebook, on which most if not all political communication and comment now appears. Supporters of the NLD and those of the military, the USDP, and related parties maintain a strong presence on Facebook and engage in regular discursive wars. The USDP and NLD provide their members with training in online skills.31 When one side wins, it rejoices, while the other side suspects foul play.32 As long as partisan accounts and pages do not contain discourse of a highly personal and inflammatory nature which violates Facebook’s community standards, the company does not get involved. It may in any case not have the human and technological capacity necessary to monitor, review and, if appropriate, red-flag the thousands of partisan and potentially inflammatory postings in the Myanmar language that come online on a daily basis. Facebook itself acknowledges difficulties in deciding on and taking action against hate speech on their platform.33 Facebook has issued warnings to the owners of several accounts by closing them for a short time.34 It has also apparently allowed users to learn acceptable Facebooking through letting them make mistakes, and correcting them when necessary. Facebook and its users now seem engaged in a process of mutual learning. Myanmar users are improving their Facebooking skills and getting ready for the general elections in 2020. The ongoing transition in unendingly polarized Myanmar provides them with an endless supply of contentious issues. The most recent is the controversy over a possible amendment to the Constitution, which began in February 2019. Hundreds, if not thousands, of the Facebook accounts of pro-NLD, 7