Aye Min Thant

Features Editor at Frontier Myanmar

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Aye Min Thant is a Burmese-American journalist and the features editor for Frontier Myanmar. Their work has appeared in the New York Times, Reuters, 1843 Magazine, and on Deutsche Welle. Aye won a Pulitzer Prize in 2019 as part of the Reuters team covering the Rohingya crisis and its aftermath.

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The Creation of "Digital Illiteracy": How Platforms Favour Disinformation and Hate Speech in Myanmar and around the World

Aye Min Thant

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and features editor for Frontier Myanmar, Aye Min Thant, is going to speak about platforms and their creation of the"digitally illiterate user". She is going to focus on how this unfolds in Myanmar, but also how these dynamics replicate disinformation, information silos, and hate speech around the world.

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