The online hate campaigns targeting Malaysia’s Rohingya refugee community

More than 126,000 Rohingya refugees who fled systemic persecution in Myanmar have settled in Malaysia over the past decade. But an initial wave of hospitality has since been replaced by hostility, mostly driven by online misinformation campaigns. Amid the growing resentment, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has pledged to repatriate asylum seekers back to a country still gripped by war.