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Weaponizing Social Media: The Rohingya Crisis

More than 700,000 Rohingya men, women and children have been ejected from Myanmar's Rakhine state, and now huddle in an enormous refugee camp in Bangladesh -- the biggest in the world. The fear that stoked this ethnic cleansing was inflamed by a surge in affordable new technology, and the social media platforms that came with it quickened the spread of dangerous propaganda.
Feb 27, 2018 (28:59)
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