Jatiya Party leader says he will bring back Sheikh Hasina, comment spreads on Facebook

Badarganj upazila Jamaat-e-Islami emir Mohammad Kamruzzaman Kabir said the ethnic party was working to bring back the “fascist” Awami League. He said that the Upazila Jatiya Party has made its position clear. In a press statement, Mohammad Mustaqur Rahman, joint convenor of Badarganj upazila committee of Jatiya Party, said that the comments made by Mokammel […]

Power of influencers and segmentation strategy

In Bangladesh, divisions driven by influential people during elections can be particularly risky for several reasons. First, political discourse here often shifts from “policies and programmes” to “individuals and identities”. When influential people make this identity politics viral in simple language, social cleavages widen rapidly. People are unwilling to listen to reason because they have […]

Impact of social media on democracy

Faisal explained how people from different communities in India are being threatened and instigated against other groups through social media. Moving forward, he stressed on increasing the integrity and transparency of social media. According to Rezwan Islam, communications and outreach coordinator at Engage Media, the roles of individual users, fact-checkers, journalists and others will be […]

Myanmar military's hate speech campaign on Facebook: UN investigation

Relationships between the pages were observed in a variety of ways: they often shared creators, administrators, and editors, and regularly posted content using the same IP addresses used by the Myanmar military. “This network often featured identical content posted on multiple pages, sometimes within a matter of minutes,” IIMM said. The investigators highlighted that the […]

Boycott India: JASAD criticizes dirty politics and historical parallels

He further said that the same things were said while opposing the traditional Bengali culture, Bengali language, the liberation war of Bengalis and independent Bangladesh. The country was oppressed, oppressed, tortured and mass genocide was carried out in 1971 to weaken this country. JASOD President and General Secretary said, “Boycott India” or “Boycott Indian products” […]

short stories to the rescue

To understand this, we first have to understand the enemy’s strategy and fight fire with fire. What makes these materials so attractive? To mention a few, they are entertaining, quick, repeatable, require little effort to understand, and come in lots of varieties. People of all ages enjoy stories, fantasy has always been special as it […]

Introducing Global Web Call: the newest way to communicate securely and privately on IMO

With further upgrades, the feature will support more than 10 callers simultaneously and offer a video calling experience as well. “With so many platforms available now, it can be difficult to streamline conversations,” said Mehran Kabir, business director of imo Messenger. Furthermore, privacy concerns remain a challenge in various contexts. That’s where our feature Global […]