Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | November 25, 2016
Burma’s enthusiastic embrace of social media has given an unprecedented platform to extremist groups, allowing them to spread misinformation and even incite violence within fractured racial and religious communities. On this episode of DVB Debate, our panellists discuss the social and legal factors that contribute to hate speech, and how the justice system should respond.
Read DVB’s hate speech coverage here.
This video originally appeared on DVB on November 25, 2016.
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