UNITED Nations-appointed independent rights experts on Myanmar have urged social media companies to do more to resist the Southeast Asian country's military junta's 'online campaign of terror.
' In an appeal to internet chat platforms to monitor content more carefully and allocate enough resources to do so, the experts warned that Telegram, in particular, had become 'a hotbed of pro-military activity.' Tens of thousands of followers had been drawn to the junta's 'violent and misogynistic content,' said the experts, who noted that women were often accused of having sex with Muslim men or supporting the country's Muslim population.
'Every day, women are being threatened online with sexualized violence because they are standing up for human rights, opposing the military's attempted rule, and fighting for a return to a democratic path,' the experts said in a statement. 'Doxxing and other forms of online harassment add to the multiple threats that women activists, human rights defenders and independent associations are already facing in Myanmar,' they added.
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