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1 month ago | 
technologyreview.com | Peter Guest |Emily Fishbein
Social media is monitored by a combination of human moderators and AI systems, which help flag users and content—ads, posts, pages—that break the law or violate the companies’ own policies. Dangerous content is easiest to police when it follows predictable patterns or is posted by users acting in distinctive and suspicious ways. “They have financial resources. You can hire the most talented coding engineers in the world.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
frontiermyanmar.net | Emily Fishbein
By EMILY FISHBEIN | FRONTIERThis article was supported by the Pulitzer Center and is part of a series of articles about human trafficking into the cyber-scamming industry in Myanmar following the 2021 military coup. In 2022, Sara responded to an online ad for customer service workers in Thailand, accepting a job after two video interviews over Skype. “They had an address; they had a telephone number … it looked legit,” she said. “The salary was market-related.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
aljazeera.com | Emily Fishbein
In November 2023, Htun was trapped in a cyber-scamming compound in Laukkai, in Myanmar’s eastern Shan State on the border with China, when the city came under siege. For nearly a year, the former English tutor from Myanmar’s central Sagaing region had been held there against his will.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
aljazeera.com | Emily Fishbein
Victims recount life inside a scam factory in Laukkai before the city's fall brought the scheme crashing down. In October of 2021, La Awng travelled from his native Kachin State in Myanmar to Laukkai, the capital of the country’s autonomous Kokang region near the border with China, planning to work in a casino. Instead, he was trafficked into a cyber-scamming business run by Chinese criminal networks.
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May 26, 2024 | 
aljazeera.com | Emily Fishbein
Ever since she witnessed a Myanmar military air strike on her school in February, kindergarten teacher Mi Hser has been haunted by the memory. The day started like any other at the school in Daw Si Ei village in the southeastern Karenni State’s Demoso township. Children tossed around a football, while others played and shared snacks until the morning bell. Gathered outside for their weekly assembly, the 170 students listened as their teachers spoke.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
msn.com | Emily Fishbein
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Emily Fishbein
An airstrike on a school in Myanmar’s south-eastern Karenni state killed four children and injured at least 15 others, according to five witnesses. The victims, all boys aged 12 to 14, were students at the school in Daw Si Ei village, which served about 200 students and was run by local community members and former government teachers. Two additional children remain in critical condition after being wounded in the head and abdomen.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
thedial.world | Emily Fishbein
I had once planned to study abroad, but that plan fell apart with the coup, which also affected my mental well-being. It has been almost three years, and I don’t feel like studying anymore, but I’m trying my best to stay positive. Although I feel dissatisfied in many ways, at least I’m working to serve my community. My sense of safety has totally disappeared since the coup.
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
newsbreak.com | Emily Fishbein
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Sep 1, 2023 | 
burma.irrawaddy.com | Emily Fishbein
အိန္ဒိယနိုင်ငံ၊ မီဇိုရမ်ပြည်နယ်တွင် အိမ်နီးချင်း မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိ ဇာတိချင်းပြည်နယ်အထိ ရှည်လျားသည့် စိမ်းလန်းသော တောင်တန်းများကို မိုးနေသည့် ကွန်ကရစ်အိမ်ရှေ့ ကွင်းပြင်တွင် ဂရေ့စ်သည် သူ၏နိုင်ငံ ပညာရေးဌာနတွင် အလုပ်လုပ်ခဲ့သည့် နေ့ရက်များကို ဝမ်းနည်းစွာ ပြန်လည် အမှတ်ရနေသည်။ “လစာနည်းပေမယ့် အဲဒီအလုပ်ကို ကျမ အရမ်းတန်ဖိုးထားတယ်” ဟု သူက ပြောသည်။ “ကျမက အိမ်မှာ နေတာထက် ရုံးမှာနေတာ ပိုများပြီး ရုံးကို ပိုမိုအကျွမ်းတဝင်ရှိတယ်လို့ ခံစားရတယ်” ဟုလည်း ပြောသည်။ သို့သော် ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်တွင် စစ်တပ်က...
