Emily Fishbein is a freelance journalist focusing on Myanmar. Her reporting for this article was conducted with support from the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Investigations Network, where she served as a fellow from April 2025 to April 2026.
This is the first of a three-part investigation into a coordinated influence operation targeting India’s efforts to secure rare earths from Myanmar’s Kachin region. It traces how a fabricated conspiracy…
