Daniel Nass and Shaun Turton

Days after Prime Minister Hun Sen surpassed 3 million fans on Facebook, an analysis of the premier’s social media followers has found more than half the “likes” garnered by his page in the past month were from abroad – mostly from India and the Philippines – raising questions about their legitimacy.

The analysis, using data collected by social media analytics website socialbakers.com, shows that about 779,000 Facebook accounts “liked” Hun Sen in the past month but only 157,331 were located in Cambodia.

The biggest influx, 255,692, came from India, where a total of 332,475 Facebook accounts “like” Hun Sen. Further, over the past 30 days, 98,256 accounts from the Philippines liked the premier, as did 54,972 from Myanmar, 46,368 from Indonesia, 26,527 from Brazil, 12,980 from Mexico, 4,783 from Turkey and 3,952 from the United Arab Emirates. Overall, 591,717, or nearly 50 per cent, of Hun Sen’s 1.2 million international followers were added in the past month.

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It would seem that the PM is buying likes. How sad.

Nothing strange nor bad about that.

The whole world has been dumb enough to give value to these facebook likes so now why should we blame somebody for buying something to which we have given value ourselves?

He's just following the lead of the brainwashed masses.

He should have instructed these Indian networking SEO companies to mask their IP though, that's a basic... That's where he should be criticized, that's really not a professional campaign.

For the rest, EVERY politician on the planet and even some celebrity use the service of trolls, nothing bad about that, and if there is some bad, the most guilty are facebook users themselves for collaborating in this mass folly by plugging their brain to facebook every day.