[ April 19, 2024 ]
CBS will be presenting a report on the Rohingya. The reporter will be Adam Yamaguchi, who readers of The Geller Report will recall as the same Adam Yamaguchi who brought us the terrible “Islamophobia,” report, which blamed Pamela Geller for the murders committed by Anders Breivik. In addition to this, CBS is claiming that the intern
et and social media are to blame for the plight of the Rohingya.
This will be a propaganda extravaganza. Be ready to call CBS and express your displeasure with CBS’ propaganda and attempt to restrict the internet.
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“Technology is like a bomb”: Social media weaponized in Myanmar’s Rohingya crisis
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rohingya-refugee-crisis-myanmar-weaponizing-social-media-preview/
Watch the new CBSN Originals documentary, “Weaponizing Social Media: The Rohingya Crisis,” on CBSN Monday, February 26, at 8 p.m., 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. ET.
The utopian dream of internet and social media pioneers — the idea that connecting millions of people in cyberspace would make the world a better place — has run into a darker reality as invisible armies of trolls, bots and propagandists use the technology to sway public opinion and poison debate.
Perhaps nowhere has that impact been more malign than in Myanmar, where social media has been weaponized against the vulnerable Rohingya minority as the regime carries out what one U.N. official calls “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.”
“Social media has been, I think, one of the most damaging aspects of this entire crisis,” said David Mathieson, an independent analyst who’s lived and worked in the region for years.
The Rohingya crisis began unfolding in August, when government forces launched a deadly offensive against the Muslim minority group, slaughtering men, women and children and burning hundreds of villages to the ground. The onslaught, following years of persecution, came after a Rohingya militant group attacked police and security posts, killing 12. Since then, nearly 700,000 Rohingya have fled their homes, most landing in a sprawling refugee camp across the border in Bangladesh.
“The government’s main plan is… to carry out slow and steady genocide and to wipe out this minority, clearly,” said Ro Aung Zaw (a pseudonym), a 30-year-old Rohingya refugee who is part of a clandestine network of citizen journalists working to evade government censors and smuggle news and video of atrocities to the outside world.
They’re up against a powerful propaganda machine. The regime and its allies minimize and deny allegations of widespread human rights abuses; some even suggest the Rohingya burned their own villages. They “manipulate and use propaganda for long time. Propaganda is very dangerous,” one Rohingya man told us.
Extreme Buddhist nationalists use Facebook to spread these virulent messages. The number of Facebook users in the country skyrocketed from about 2 million in 2014 to more than 30 million today, and mobile phones have become ubiquitous. But people’s understanding of how these tools can be manipulated has not kept pace.
“I think people internationally need to realize that five years ago, it cost a couple hundred dollars to get a sim card. Not many people had phones. And so, what we’ve seen in the past three or four years is this country getting online, everyone having a cheap smartphone and access to Facebook. And so there’s not the media literacy, there’s not the kind of ability to understand this medium, and the limitations of online speech,” Mathieson said.
Few people in Myanmar speak up for the Rohingya, but one who does, an outspoken punk rocker, says he gets attacked online because of it. As he puts it: “Technology is like a bomb in Myanmar. Right now everybody has a mobile phone. Everybody use social media, especially Facebook. They don’t know how to respect the people. … They don’t know what is private or public. They need this education fast.”
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49 Comments
6 years ago
Social media has been weaponized for the left.
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6 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Yes, but this is Adam Yamaguchi who is just an out of this world propagandist.
Just look at this – CAIR propaganda, Reza Aslan, and reviling Pamela Geller.
https://archive.org/details/IslamophobiaInEuropeAndAmericaDocumentary
6 years ago
Reply to
livingengine
CAIR Leader Nezar Hamze is a Broward Deputy Sheriff.
By employing Nezar Hamze, Broward Sheriff Scott Israel has compromised not only the Broward Sheriff’s office, but the security of the entire county.
6 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Are there no prominent right leaning social media outlets, or in numbers equal to the left biased ones? Such a strong weapon in the hands of one group that embraces one ideology. Does not seem fair or wise to me.
6 years ago
Burma should raid any and all enemedia outlets (e.g. Crescent News Network, CBS) in their country and investigate why and how they promulgate islamic propaganda.
Author
6 years ago
In the ’60’s, Buddhists were setting themselves on fire to protest the Vietnam war. Today, they are carrying guns, and machetes to defend themselves against the Rohingya Muslims. This fact should tell you everything you need to know about the situation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c
6 years ago
Reply to
livingengine
Wikipedia? Aren’t they basically an islamic propaganda outlet now?
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
They are like anything else that muslims get into, a pack of lies.
6 years ago
Yea, we know how Mohammedans were so “prosecuted” throughout centuries that they manage, somehow, to conquer 56 countries (plus one territory pretending to be “state”) and they have still plans for more! If that would be true that they were so “prosecuted,” Islam would cease to exist today, sharing the fate of ancient Carthaginians or Aztecs.
6 years ago
The lame stream media are bought and paid for by corporations that make money from the spin off criminal proceeds of human trafficking, theft of national assets and the lame stream religion camp followed of human trafficking through “refugee” resettlement. There is money to be made fro muslims as they try and buy their way to places they cannot invaded. The cheap whores of the lame stream media are there to accommodate muslims at the cost to humanity.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
It’s really the ugly truth about the enemedia in the USA. I wonder if JP’s mainstream media is similarly propagandized.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
It is filtered quite a bit, little too polite in its lack of reporting.
6 years ago
1971 Bangladesh genocide .. In 1971, Muslims murdered 2.4 million Hindus and raped 400,000 Hindu women. in just one year.
6 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
Why have not we heard about this? They murdered 2.4 million Hindus and raped all those women. That is terrible and it happened in the 20th century. We’re supposed to be civilized.
6 years ago
Reply to
Tm.
Sweden opened its doors to Muslim Immigration, today it’s the Rape Capital of the West.
Smart Japan did not.
6 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
Police begging for help, legal system collapsing. swedish police is so overworked, outnumbered that the Police chief is begging for help from his own govt http://bit.ly/2s75qAn
But they are too busy bringing in more jihadis and dumb Left/liberal women I heard are allowing themselves be their sex slaves so they won’t be killed !
6 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
If you will not fight for freedom when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves..
– Winston Churchill
6 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
But you’re wrong. Two Turkish muslums, a father and son, raped and robbed a Japanese woman in Tokyo. A mosque is already in operation in Tokyo and Japanese school children have been brought there to be propagandized about islum.
6 years ago
Reply to
harbidoll
Ms. Geller reported the Tokyo school children being propagandized about islum at a mosque right here.
6 years ago
Reply to
Tm.
Hindu religion is naturally “appeasement”. (Merrily, merrily, Life is but a dream).
6 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
The world’s best kept genocide. India INVADED Bangladesh to stop this genocide and the f’ing PRC threatened direct military action unless India withdrew its forces (which were kicking a$$ over the f’ing muslums at the time). If the PRC ever sticks their a$$ in India’s business again I hope India threatens them w/a nuclear Armageddon.
6 years ago
Afghanistan was a Buddhist area before the Arab Muslim invasion… Taliban Muslims – recently destroyed 2,000 year old Buddha statues.. to try to erase history..
6 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
Egypt, Turkey, Syria were Christian countries before iSSlamazation through violent jihad https://quran.com/9/29
6 years ago
Reply to
Thorsten
I knew Turkey was Christian, I pray for them, but I didn’t know Egypt and Syria were Christian. How shocking.
I read Czechoslovakia is extraditing a Kurdish officer to Turkey, does the world understand what will happen, does anyone care?
6 years ago
Reply to
Tm.
Turkey is more than 98% muslum at this point and coming closer to 100% allah the time.
6 years ago
Reply to
Tm.
Coptic Christs in Egypt before Islam came, now the few Coptic live under allah’SS rule https://quran.com/9/29
Arab city Medina was a Jewish town called Yathtrib, before prophet muh. came
6 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
I never thought of that. You are right, they destroyed the World Heritage Sites, the Bamiyan statues. Does the world know what they lost there? The history, the hundreds of years of work to complete those statues.
I had not know that in the seventies, women in Afghanistan dressed similarly to western women, and could go to a library.
6 years ago
Reply to
Tm.
Look at the pictures of Iranian women, etc. before Jimmy Carter turned over Iran to the Mullahs.
Muslims destroy history ( not just statues ) everywhere they go. From small islands off the coast of Africa to Timbuktu.
6 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
It took the f’ing muslums of Afghanistain (spit) a lot of effort to destroy those massive Buddhist statues as well. It’s not something they just took a sledgehammer too — it took hundreds of pounds of high explosives.
6 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
An absolute tragedy (I seem to remember that they were begged not to) but true to form muzrats mutilate and destroy everything they touch.
6 years ago
Reply to
Cai
Note what happened to the Jews of Medina in the 7th Century… the Jews were ambushed & massacred while under a flag of truce
6 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
Seems to me that muzrats are an alien species spawned somewhere in a dark, loveless, dishonourable and violent space, a scourge on this beautiful planet.
6 years ago
‘War (jihad https://quran.com/8/39 ..) is deceit’ https://sunnah.com/bukhari/56/237
‘War’ -> genocide to all unbelievers https://quran.com/4/89 9/5, 5/33, 8/12-17 … who NOT submit (only for Jews & Christians cause ‘corrupting’ the Bible) https://quran.com/9/29
6 years ago
Will CBS do a piece on the continued abductions, rape, forced marriage, and in some cases women being forced to be suicide bombers, in Nigeria?
Another 103 were recently abducted by the Boko H group. Previously, they stole over 300 girls and 100 of those have never returned.
Is that right? What heartbreak they have caused those parents. Is it right that these groups should abduct young girls and force them for the militants?
Why doesn’t the world condemn such actions?
As for the Rohynga, I had read that they were reeking havoc on the Buddhists, for I had never heard of the Buddhist being violent or combative. I find it hard to believe the Buddhist would start killing people unless they were defending themselves.
6 years ago
Reply to
Tm.
The f’ing muslums destroyed the ancient Buddhist library of Nalanda. They burned all the books/scrolls as well as the Buddhist monks — alive.
6 years ago
I find myself wondering if this is the overture to military action against Burma by the corrupt, craven, cowardly states that comprise the dying atheist West. I’d imagine some sort of diplomatic sanctions are in Burma’s future. F*ck the dying atheist West and muslums.
6 years ago
CBS what happened to the Buddhists and Hindus who used to live in Afghanistan (spit)? Buddhists and Hindus were once the majority population of Afghanistan, now not a single Buddhist or Hindu resides in the muslum pig’s anus state of Afghanistain, not ONE.
6 years ago
Who the F- needs FB?
6 years ago
according to Google, Rohingyas tore apart Pakistan by running/loosing in an election, then took western Paki & turned it into Bangladesh.
6 years ago
And of course no mention of the endless Jihad the Rohingya Muslims have been waging on the Buddhists.
6 years ago
How many “extreme Buddhist nationalists” have you ever met? Historically, Buddhist have been pacifists. It’s the nature of their religion. Historically, Muslims have been violent extremist supremacists, it’s the nature of their religion. I rest my case.
Kevin J. Johnston went to Burma on his own dime to discover what’s going on. He discovered that there is no “Rohingya people”. This is a Muslim victim-hood invention of the OIC dominated UN at the expense of the peaceful Hindus and Buddhists the Muslims are attacking. The Muslims in Burma have been inspired by the same extremists that are committing all the machete attacks in Bangladesh on apostate and atheist bloggers. Here is the first of his on the spot reports from Myanmar…
KJJ Radio Kevin J. Johnston International Updates Part 1 of 4
https://youtu.be/tnXPjZKvswM
6 years ago
I have stopped watching CBS for a long time now. I get my news from OAN (One America News network). All of these other maggot so-called news organizations are now socialist/communist/marxist/progressive liberal propaganda machines that are working hard to ensure the near-future destruction and enslavement of the American capitalist system. God save us, Please!
6 years ago
When India gave Pakistan there land, they should have deported all Muslims and built a wall o keep the evil out.
6 years ago
Scum of the Earth
6 years ago
It hasn’t been that long since followers of islime were interred in camps in Myanmar.
The leader of Myanmar’s government said that if the muslims were not kept away from the general population that they created too much trouble.
Apparently, Myanmar caved to outside pressure and disbanded the camps and allowed muslims the freedom to access their society. You have just read of the results of that decision.
When there is an infestation of roaches, the only solution is total anhialation, males, females, adolescents and eggs.
This is the only solution for Myanmar and may God bless them in their efforts to return to civilation.
6 years ago
Burma does not want any Muslims living in their land, so they expelled them — what every country should do. Get rid of the Muslims, let them go and live in Islamic countries. Bangladesh should be glad to welcome these Muslims from Burma — aren’t they all a part of the UMMA??? All Muslims should occupy the planet???
Bangladesh was stolen from India (as was Pakistan) because Muslims cannot live together with non-Muslims. And now they want Kashmir too.
A Buddist monk said: “You may be full of love and kindness, but you cannot lie down to sleep beside a mad dog.” And Muslims are all mad dogs..
