DVB’s Aye Nai spoke with Aung Myo Min, the director of Equality Myanmar and co-founder of the Human Rights Education Institute of Burma, about “free speech” and “hate speech”, and how to solve the spread of hatred by promoting peaceful understanding among different races and religions.

On the eve of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appearing before a US Senate panel, organisations in Burma have pushed back on his defence of the company’s efforts to mitigate hate speech online, sharing more damning material as evidence of the social network’s role in the Rohingya crisis.

Originally published on Mohinga Matters Many businesses in the country have migrated to Facebook in recent years. We have witnessed the significant growth of e-commerce...

Religious Affairs Minister Thura Aung Ko criticised monks for "wasting time" on social media, calling it "a platform for the ignition of religious and racial tensions".

Activists representing a new anti-hate speech campaign travelled to Irrawaddy Division’s Pyapon on Saturday to promote religious tolerance, following an invitation from local youth groups.

Burma’s Deputy Information Minister Ye Htut attended the ‘Preventing Hate Speech in Myanmar: Divergent Voices in a New Democracy’ forum in Rangoon on Friday. After...