New from me: It's high time for T&S leaders at big tech platforms to speak up. We need to hear the US-based VPs of T&S at Apple, Google, Meta, TikTok and other platforms say in one voice that content moderation is not censorship.

The US State Department targets foreign fact-checkers and online safety workers

The DVB Peacock Film Festival 2025 will return to Chiang Mai University (CMU) Communication Innovation Center Dec. 8-10. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #DVBPeacockFilmFestival Read more: english.dvb.no/swedish-acti...

Superb acceptance speech. Congrats @justiceformyanmar.org (well deserved!). youtu.be/LiTEDQkuFeA?...

1/5: In partnership with @instituteici.bsky.social we are thrilled to finally share the Open-Source Practitioner’s Guide to the Murad Code, a resource designed to strengthen the digital investigations of systematic + conflict-related sexual violence (SCRSV): www.muradcode.com/open-source-...

Clearly no understanding of what is happening in Myanmar...

DHS Terminating Temporary Protected Status for Burma "The situation in Burma has improved enough that it is safe for Burmese citizens to return home..." They just make stuff up.

Thabyay offers a simpler story for the viewer, one of two sides: the military, and the people resisting it. This simplicity is not naïve. The film instead spends its energy on showcasing some of the breadth of resistance english.dvb.no/thabyay-crea... #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #documentary #film

DVB review of our new film. #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar

For those in the San Francisco Bay Area, please join us for a free screening of our new film. Thabyay: Creative Resistance in Myanmar San Francisco Public Library Sunday, 30 Nov 2025 1:00p - 3:00p #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar

The power of #OSINT!

#HappeningNow the screening of Thabyay: The Creative Resistance. Join us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/share/v/17a5...

A screening of Thabyay: Creative Resistance in Myanmar, followed by a panel discussion on the future of elections and democracy in Myanmar, was held at Chiang Mai University on Sept. 7. Read more and check out our photos: english.dvb.no/thabyay-crea... #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #thailand #documentary

#HappeningTomorrow Come and see Screening of “Thabyay: Creative Resistance In Myanmar" at 5:30-7:00 pm @SEAJunction, 4th Floor BACC. A powerful look at Myanmar's revolution through 4 leaders torn between peace and resistance, showing how art fuels hope in the fight for democracy and justice.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Myanmar Scot Marciel joins the DVB Newsroom to discuss his four years as America's top diplomat in Yangon. Watch DVB Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen wherever you get #podcasts www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRja... #WhatshappeninginMyanmar #USA

Join us #Screening of “Thabyay: Creative Resistance In Myanmar" 🗓 8 October 2025 ⏰ 5:30 – 7:00 pm 📍 SEA Junction, 4th Floor, BACC Please read more info seajunction.org/.../screenin... The event is free; donation is encouraged to help support future activities of SEA Junction.

Powerful address by Wai Wai Nu to the UN General Assembly. Well done @waiwainu.bsky.social! #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar @hrcberkeley.bsky.social

Congrats to @justiceformyanmar.org. Well deserved!

Great to see this @alexakoenig.bsky.social. Congratulations!

World leaders will discuss how to assist the Rohingya in the world’s largest refugee settlement. But no one living there is attending the conference at the United Nations.

New report from the IIMM, detailing the destruction and seizure of Rohingya homes, farms, mosques and other property in 2017 and the repurposing of the land to erase all traces of the Rohingya’s long presence. #IIMM #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians Congrats @972mag.com, שיחה מיקומית (Local Call), and @theguardian.com whose work lead to this.

"As our country becomes more polarized, people are becoming increasingly apprehensive about venturing beyond their communities. I wanted to suggest travel as an antidote to these fears, many of which are being exaggerated by a leadership eager to divide us." -- Jeff Greenwald, EthicalTraveler.org

Thabyay: Creative Resistance in Myanmar tells the courageous stories of four democracy revolutionaries using creative means to resist the military junta. We’re excited to be on track for the film’s premiere in Bangkok at the end of this month. Please consider supporting our work!

Notable final question from @emmafarge.bsky.social. The IMM has a unit conducting open-source investigations, which has collected thousands of videos of suspected crimes. If additional grants are not secured, the IIMM will have to close this vital unit by end of year. #IIMM #OSINT

"The collective report had been expected months ago, but was delayed as State Department officials worked under the orders of political appointees in the agency to cut language in the report." Journalists need to stay focused on independent reports. Reports from the US Government are propaganda.

Important work indeed. And it's heartening that the IIMM shares their findings with international courts _proactively_. This, on the other hand, is a major bummer: "the Mechanism’s access to resources needed to investigate the crimes has significantly diminished..."

Great to hear this today on KQED in San Francisco.

Great to hear @jwassers.bsky.social on The World today - one of my favorite radio programs. Well done, Jeff! #MilkTeaAlliance #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar

@acleddata.bsky.social recently launched a new site with a handy “Conflict Index" tool. acleddata.com/platform/con... #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar Useful as an explainer when discussing Burma re Palestine and Ukraine:

An awful story, well told (by writer and friend Jeff Greenwald). Amazon thinks they can take the heat off by reversing harm done by their bots. We need to convince them that’s not the case!

Another vital American institution bites the dust. MAGA my ass.

Especially given the Trump Administration's recent actions in the DRC, this is nerve-wracking. #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar

Glenn Kessler, Washington Post fact-checker takes buyout “I didn’t want The Post to have a gap in fact-checking coverage during this fraught period in U.S. history. But we couldn’t work out an agreement. (Okay, so I buried the lede.)”

Citizenship and Genocide Cards IDs, Statelessness and Rohingya Resistance in Myanmar By Natalie Brinham Open Access download available. #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar

Well stated! @lowyinstitute.bsky.social #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar

"An executive order by President Trump seeking to punish people who work with the International Criminal Court is most likely a violation of the First Amendment, a federal judge found..." but "tentative and limited" #ICC @fortifyrights.bsky.social @hrcberkeley.bsky.social

Arrest warrants have been issued for Taliban leaders in Afghanistan for the crime against humanity of persecution on gender grounds, against girls, women and other persons. #ICC

"Funding and programs that support the prevention, investigation, and prosecution of atrocity crimes are among the most cost-effective tools available for advancing American power, interests, and influence abroad." #ICC #ICJ @hrcberkeley.bsky.social

“War today seems to be the only agenda for some major powers, including a war against justice itself.” Stand firm in support of all quests for justice #icc #icj

Great examples of thinking outside the box. #OSINT

What a shame. Trump really doesn’t know what he’s doing.

The bad news just keeps coming: "programs include one that does accountability work on Myanmar army's atrocities against Rohingya minorities as well as on the persecution of Christians and other minorities by Syria's ousted former president Bashar al-Assad..." #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar

OSINT Provides Powerful Evidence of Gender Crimes in Iran and Beyond Well done Alexa Koenig @alexakoenig.bsky.social and Andrea Richardson. #OSINT #ICC

Good to see this coverage of the stellar work of Lindsay Freeman @lindsaysfreeman.bsky.social and the Human Rights Center @hrcberkeley.bsky.social #ICC

“Allowing the worldwide publication of war crimes on the open web emboldens perpetrators, demoralizes victims, and frustrates national law enforcement, who rarely have jurisdiction to act when crimes are committed outside their territories," writes Lindsay Freeman - @lindsaysfreeman.bsky.social

Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Finland recently announced their intentions to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention. Their justification: they need to protect themselves from Russia, in light of diminished protection from the U.S. amid Trump’s volatile foreign policy decision making.

Very concerning. #ICC

A fitting tribute to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on her birthday from Debbie Stothard (@debbiestot.bsky.social). #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar

Excellent report from the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law. #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar