Weaponizing Social Media: The Rohingya Crisis
S3E2 · 2018-02-26 · 29 min
More than 700,000 Rohingya men, women and children have been ejected from Myanmar's Rakhine state, and now huddle in an enormous refugee camp in Bangladesh -- the biggest in the world. The fear that stoked this ethnic cleansing was inflamed by a surge in affordable new technology, and the social media platforms that came with it quickened the spread of dangerous propaganda.
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