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Repression Via ""Fighting Fake News

A Study of Four Southeast Asian Autocracies
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Southeast Asian autocracies of Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam have politicized vague definitions of "fake news" to justify diverse tactics of digital repression. In these countries, what constitutes falseness in "fake news" has hardly been clearly articulated. The governments instead focus on the grave threats the dissemination of "fake news" could pose to national security, public disorder or national prestige
Janjira Sombatpoonsiri is Visiting Fellow in the Media, Technology and Society Programme at the ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore and Assistant Professor and Project Leader at the Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. Dien Nguyen An Luong is Visiting Fellow in the Media, Technology and Society Programme at the ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore.
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