“Since the coup, pro-junta actors have taken advantage of Telegram's lax approach to content moderation and gaps in its terms of service. The UN experts warned that messaging and social media platforms – Telegram in particular – have become a hotbed of pro-military activity. “Gendered abuse has caused many women to cut back their online activism and retreat from public life,” they said. “Women have been targeted and severely harmed,” they said.Īccording to the experts, pro-junta accounts regularly use hateful, sexualised, and discriminatory rhetoric in an attempt to discredit women activists and human rights defenders. “Online rhetoric has spilled into real world terror, with military supporters using social media to harass and incite violence against pro-democracy activists and human rights defenders,” the experts said. GENEVA (13 March 2023) – Myanmar’s military junta is orchestrating an online campaign of terror, and weaponising social media platforms to crush democratic opposition, UN experts* said today.
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