Future Forward deputy meets with police over 3-minute fake post

By The Nation

 

Lt General Pongsakorn//Rachanon //Photo by Rachanon Intharagsa

 

A deputy leader of Future Forward Party on Monday met with police to acknowledge a charge against him for allegedly violating the Computer Crime Act by sharing a photo that was later found to be fake.
 

Lt General Pongsakorn Rodchompoo had earlier admitted sharing an article and photo that falsely accused Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan of buying cups of coffee for Bt12,000. He claimed he deleted the post within minutes after realising that it had originated from a website promoting fake news. 

 

Pongsakorn said he was reporting for the first summons by police, and had not fled as had been reported by some outlets. He stressed that he shared the story as he believed it was real after seeing the logo of a mainstream news outlet on it.

 

Three minutes later somebody warned him that it could be fake. He deleted the post and issued an apology on his Facebook page.

 

In those three minutes between posting and deleting, somebody had captured the message and reported it to police..

 

“I believe it is politically motivated,” he said. His party has Thanathorn Juengrungruangkit as leader and the sole candidate for the premiership in the March 24 national poll. Thanathorn has been popular among younger generations, but more controversial among some other voters.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30365579

 

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41 minutes ago, webfact said:

In those three minutes between posting and deleting, somebody had captured the message and reported it to police..

Good golly! Somebody must have been sitting, absolutely glued to their Fake News on Face Book watchdog to spot this unfortunate error. You can just picture the poor sod - a PPRP member at a guess - sitting there, all day, and maybe getting nothing, all in the name of fair and respectable politics . . . Thai style.

Edited March 11, 20197 yr by Ossy
clarity

Fine him B1000 and move on.

He'll be fine: a smile and a wai and all is forgotten.

 

Well, it should be but maybe not given the present circumstances.

Good grief, I refuse to believe that those fine upstanding members of the junta could possibly be monitoring the oppositions internet, phone and mail traffic !!! Could they ? would they ?......... nah, they're Honorable people