A woman uses her mobile phone to check Facebook and other mobile apps in Yangon on February 4, 2021 as Myanmar's generals ordered internet providers to restrict access to Facebook, days after they seized power. (AFP)

Digital warfare: Myanmar’s cyber crackdown explained

Tech experts, rights groups, and citizens worry the junta's lightning-quick moves to shutdown and censor the internet will make Myanmar as cut-off as during the previous military regime. No one knows the military's endgame.

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