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Social media is a powerful tool, for both good and ill. In Myanmar, social media and Facebook in particular has been put to cruel and dangerous use. In Myanmar, as in other countries, before the most recent episode of genocide against the Rohingya Muslims, racists and bigots took to Facebook to spread their ideas. Celebrity Buddhist monks, most notably Ashin Wirathu, used