How Facebook’s Rise Fueled Chaos and Confusion in Myanmar

The riots wouldn’t have happened without Facebook. On the the evening of July 2, 2014 a swelling mob of hundreds of angry residents gathered around the Sun Teashop filling the streets in the commercial hub of Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city. The teashop’s Muslim owner had been accused, falsely, of raping a female Buddhist employee. The …

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