Opposition parties, civil society, and authoritarianism in Southeast Asia and beyond. PhD candidate @UCBerkeley. Formerly @ASEANMP @Altsean @CarnegieDCG
Mar 27, 2024 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
Excited to share my new article, with @ArriolaLR & @matanock, just published in @polcommjournal
Heard the claim that @facebook caused a genocide by fanning the flames of hate in #Myanmar? The reality may be more complicated…
A brief 🧵 1/15tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
tl;dr - using nationally representative survey data, we find that #Facebook users are *more* tolerant than their offline counterparts in Myanmar, cutting against conventional wisdom that Facebook has been a uniquely powerful driver of ethnic and religious intolerance
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Sep 8, 2021 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
I know the pile on has already stared in response to this take, so my goal is not to dunk. But it’s worth pointing out that dialogue here isn't just challenging because "people are angry" or because "the Tatmadaw is bad and irrational" 🧵 1/11
So far, there has been no indication that the Tatmadaw is interested in dialogue. But even if it were, the coup created a rupture that itself undermined the potential for future negotiations 2/11
