In a tweet posted on February 3, 2021, offline messaging app Bridgefy announced that it had been downloaded over one million times in the last 48 hours, following a military coup that unfolded in Myanmar.
Bridgefy, a Mexican tech startup, first rose to prominence during pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong back in 2020.
Following the detention of Myanmar’s democratically elected leaders, people turned to Bridgefy as a way to communicate sans the internet.
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