{"id":74730,"date":"2025-10-14T13:42:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T04:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/14\/us-congress-committee-investigating-musk-owned-starlink-over-myanmar-scam-centres"},"modified":"2025-10-14T13:42:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T04:42:29","slug":"us-congress-committee-investigating-musk-owned-starlink-over-myanmar-scam-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74730","title":{"rendered":"US Congress committee investigating Musk-owned Starlink over Myanmar scam centres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Provision of internet access to scam centres being investigated as Starlink swiftly becomes Myanmar\u2019s biggest internet service provider<\/p>\n<p>A powerful bipartisan committee in the US Congress says it has begun an investigation into the involvement of Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink satellite business in providing internet access to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/sep\/08\/myanmar-military-junta-scam-centres-trafficking-crime-syndicates-kk-park\">Myanmar scam centres<\/a>, blamed for swindling billions from victims across the world.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes as it was revealed that large numbers of Starlink dishes began appearing on scam-centre roofs in Myanmar around the time of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/21\/myanmar-scam-call-centre-compounds\">a crackdown<\/a> in February that was supposed to eradicate the centres, according to a investigation by Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/14\/us-congress-committee-investigating-musk-owned-starlink-over-myanmar-scam-centres\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Provision of internet access to scam centres being investigated as Starlink swiftly becomes Myanmar\u2019s biggest internet service providerA powerful bipartisan committee in the US Congress says it has begun an investigation into the involvement of Elon Mu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1978,82,2323,61,58,234,631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-elon-musk","category-myanmar","category-satellites","category-south-and-central-asia","category-technology","category-us-congress","category-us-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74732,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74730\/revisions\/74732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}