Fake News will become endemic in Thailand

[webfact]

 

Over 7,000 fake news stories were reported in Thailand last year, according to the country’s Ministry of Digital Economy and Society (DES). The statistics indicate that most fake news involved misleading information about Thai government policy and healthcare.

 

As fake news has been growing Thailand, due to the increasing use of technology, people are now more aware of the problem. The quantity of fake news does not, however, seem to be reducing, said by Dr. Santiphap Phoemmongkhonsap, the Deputy Director of the Anti-Fake News Center of Thailand, at a seminar in Bangkok on ‘Training for the Trainers to Counter Misinformation and Disinformation in Life Sciences and Engineering’.

 

The event was organised by the Thai Young Scientists Academy (TYSA), the National Science Museum (NSM) and The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM). They discussed guidelines for clarifying and evaluating inaccurate and misleading information in fake news or misinformation and disinformation through scientific collaboration and communication. This can raise further awareness in preventing and reducing fake news.

 

For fake news, especially in healthcare-related news, it is quite challenging not to become trapped in misinformation and disinformation, and it is almost impossible to stop fake news from certain sources because there are many factors triggering people.

 

The Mechanism of Fake News

 

“Fake news that is related to us, our beliefs, or our emotions, tends to have more ability to convince us to believe. For this reason, some people can easily fall into the trap of fake news, since it plays with our emotions”, said Dr. Soontorn Sirapaisan, a researcher from the National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre (NECTEC), adding that the fake news mechanism involves lust, anger, love and greed, leading people to make poor decisions and face threat or danger.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/fake-news-will-become-endemic-in-thailand/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2023-07-27

 

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[bignok]

All fake news nowadays. The world over.

[connda]

"Fake News" is a euphemism for any information that is counter to the officially endorsed narrative provide by government and corporate entities.
 
So-called "Fake News" very often, over time (weeks or months or years later) proves to be factual news, much to the chagrin of those seeking to to keep the lid on facts.
The recent revelations of "The Twitter Files" regarding governments working hand-in-hand with Twitter to actively censor factual information (and calling it mal-information, mis-information, and the like) is a prime example.

"Fake news" I'm afraid is all too often suppressed factual information that stakeholders of "public-private partnerships" wish to censor in order to advance there own narratives.

Matt Taibbi, Lee Fang, Bari Weiss, and Micheal Shellenberger revelations from "The Twitter Files" shows a direct efforts to censor factual information an forms the basis for Shellenberger's term, The International Censorship Industrial Complex, a very apt term. 

Censorship, imho, is anathema to a functional democracy.  Censorship is the hallmark of totalitarian states, not true democracies.

[bamnutsak]

Given the deliberate actions to keep the populace un(der)-educated, and the instilling of obedience and respect of "authority", things won't be getting better.

 

This is a feature ("functions as designed") of the Thai social system, not a bug.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[McTavish]

Social media spawns fake news - usually one personal observation reported on FB, Twatter or similar and increasingly picked up by rags posing as news media sites.  

[jacko45k]

Will the fake news be produced by AI?

[JonnyF]

11 minutes ago, connda said:

"Fake News" is a euphemism for any information that is counter to the officially endorsed narrative provide by government and corporate entities.
 
So-called "Fake News" very often, over time (weeks or months or years later) proves to be factual news, much to the chagrin of those seeking to to keep the lid on facts.
The recent revelations of "The Twitter Files" regarding governments working hand-in-hand with Twitter to actively censor factual information (and calling it mal-information, mis-information, and the like) is a prime example.

"Fake news" I'm afraid is all too often suppressed factual information that stakeholders of "public-private partnerships" wish to censor in order to advance there own narratives.

Matt Taibbi, Lee Fang, Bari Weiss, and Micheal Shellenberger revelations from "The Twitter Files" shows a direct efforts to censor factual information an forms the basis for Shellenberger's term, The International Censorship Industrial Complex, a very apt term. 

Censorship, imho, is anathema to a functional democracy.  Censorship is the hallmark of totalitarian states, not true democracies.

100% correct.

 

Fake news? Quite often later proved to be factual. The whole article smacks of Orwell's "Ministry of Truth".

 

Who can forget Ardern's chilling statement during Covid.

 

 

[stoner]

52 minutes ago, webfact said:

For fake news, especially in healthcare-related news

what specifically is being hinted at here ? 

 

 

[Dcheech]

Fake OP. 

Fake News has always been endemic to Thailand.

[Kwasaki]

Started in the beginning with Thai superstition.

[KhunLA]

Following the western world's lead I see.  I can't remember when most news wasn't fake.

 

It has simply gotten worse, since monopoly ownership regulations were eliminated.

 

Nothing but Op-Ed echo boxes.  Calling any of it news is a stretch.

Edited July 27, 2023 by KhunLA

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

The statistics indicate that most fake news involved misleading information about Thai government policy and healthcare.

Like no prostitution in Pattaya?

[McTavish]

5 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Will the fake news be produced by AI?

By the truckload.  Easy enough to spot on certain news sites where key words and/or phrases are repetitive plus spelling and grammar usually perfect even if the story doesn't make sense.