Social media giant under scrutiny for spreading hate speech that has fueled persecution of nation's Rohingya Muslim minority
A Rohingya man looking at Facebook onn his cell phone at a temporary makeshift camp after crossing over from Myanmar into the Bangladesh side of the border, near Cox's Bazar's Palangkhali, September 8, 2017. Photo: Nurphoto via AFP/ Ahmed Salahuddin.
It’s not every day that a country of over 51 million people goes online virtually overnight.
But that’s been the case in Myanmar, which until recently had one of the world’s lowest internet penetration rates but is now largely plugged into the digital age. And as many will attest, Facebook is the internet in Myanmar.