In the previous quarter of 2025 (April to June), the Myanmar pro-military online platforms aggressively disseminated content designed to fuel racial and religious animosity and justification for brutal aerial attacks. The other supporting narratives frequently promoted a “no-surrender” ideology, highlighted internal divisions within anti-junta forces, and openly incited real-world harm, including calls for airstrikes, doxxing campaigns, and forced conscription.
As the third quarter (July to September) unfolds, a significant narrative shift is anticipated. Pro-military pages are expected to increasingly push narratives related to sham elections, a strategic communication effort aimed at legitimizing a predetermined outcome and undermining any opposition. Concurrently, the Myanmar military junta(also known as State Security And Peace Commission (SSPC)) continues to perpetrate severe atrocities against the civilian population, demonstrating a blatant disregard for human rights and international law. Furthermore, a substantial upgrade to their surveillance capabilities is underway, with the deployment of advanced high-tech systems like PSMS (Person Scrutinization and Monitoring System) to enhance control and monitoring of opposition individuals and organizations.
The Myanmar military’s propaganda pages, prioritizing disinformation for these sham elections, are systematically collaborating with media-front organizations, political parties, and pseudo-media outlets that refrain from criticizing the junta. Their objective is to spread incitement that jeopardizes civilian security, leading to arrests, airstrikes, area clearances, and the propagation of racial and religious hatred and on the other hand to legitimize their political figures as rulers of the country.
Even when the military primarily relied on human resources for propaganda, the content generated posed a significant danger to the community. Therefore, with the rapid global advancement of AI technology, it is inevitable that during this sham election period, the junta will increasingly leverage AI to create and disseminate problematic propaganda as some of the AI generated contents have started circulating around pro-military channels.
This report will present findings and analysis from July to September 2025, detailing how junta has been altering narratives to foster ethnic hatred, fracturing resistance efforts, instigating real-world harmful actions against opposition groups and civilians, misusing journalistic imagery, and exploiting AI technology for propaganda.
