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In Myanmar, messaging and social media app Telegram has become a new home for pro-military disinformation outlets and hate spreaders that have been banned from Facebook. (AFP)

Channelling hate and disinformation: Myanmar’s bad actors move to Telegram

Since being banned from Facebook, some of the most prominent spreaders of hate speech and disinformation have moved to Telegram, and fact-checkers say the messaging app is doing little to regulate its platform.

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