Rohingya: Hate speech, lies and media misinformation - How a vicious media campaign has intensified the pressure on an embattled people.

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"n The Listening Post this week: behind the Rohingya crisis, a vicious media campaign has steadily intensified the pressure on an embattled people. Plus, the media black hole in Sinai, Egypt. Rohingya: Hate speech, lies and media misinformation The number of majority Muslim Rohingya forced from their homes in Myanmar is now around 400,000. The United Nations says it looks like a "textbook example" of ethnic cleansing. The country?s de facto leader - a former winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and darling of the international news media - is being seen in an entirely new light. Aung San Suu Kyi and her government are on the defensive. She has taken to talking about fake news and a "huge iceberg of misinformation". Aung San Suu Kyi?s refusal to condemn the violence is a troubling angle for many Western journalists to cover, given the way they have venerated her in the past..."

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Aljazeera (Listening Post)

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2017-09-16

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2017-09-19

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English

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