Tag: social media
Tractors to Twitter: India’s protesting farmers battle on highway, online
Farmers have paralyzed some traffic in and out of New Delhi, protesting recent agriculture laws
Popular Facebook user in Vietnam arrested for ‘anti-state’ posts
Arrest comes as govt steps up crackdown on activists ahead of key party congress in January next year
Pakistani film explores social media’s role in anger over blasphemy
Taking a critical view, or even just questioning the country’s blasphemy law, carries huge risk
Tech giants ‘complicit’ in industrial-scale repression in Vietnam
State-sponsored harassment rampant on Facebook and YouTube, says rights group
Cambodia’s draft cybercrime law panned by rights group
Most recent draft follows earlier versions in 2014 and 2015 that were sharply criticized by civil society and media groups
Hate speech ‘spreading like wildfire’ on social media before Myanmar poll
In Myanmar, the stakes for Facebook are particularly high after previous accusations it helped incite genocide
Widespread hate speech: Anti-migrant sentiment fanned on Facebook in Malaysia
Surge of anti-Rohingya comments on the social media platform shows how xenophobic speech persists in the country
Finding God in the digital age
Searching for God in the digital age does not all lead in the right direction nor provide the necessary nourishment for one’s faith life
Facebook shares data on Myanmar with United Nations investigators
Myanmar is facing charges of genocide over a 2017 military crackdown on the Rohingya
UN investigator says Facebook has not shared ‘evidence’ of Myanmar crime
Facebook played a key role in spreading hate speech that fueled violence against Rohingya, UN investigators says






