NAYPYITAW - Myanmar's Telecommunications Ministry said on Tuesday it had ordered mobile operators to block a website run by activists investigating the military for spreading fake news, which the group said was a bid to silence critical voices.
"The social media monitoring team found that some websites are spreading fake news," Mr Myo Swe told Reuters by phone.Justice for Myanmar has published a series of investigations on its website, including a report about businesses that donated to the security forces during a 2017 crackdown on Rohingya Muslims that the United Nations said was carried out with"genocidal intent".
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