Cambodia’s Hun Sen denies buying up Facebook ‘likes’

[geovalin]

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen denied buying fake ‘likes’ for a Facebook page on Thursday, as the country’s rival politicians increasingly battle for social media acclaim. A self-confessed digital dinosaur, 63-year-old Hun Sen has recently taken to the web with gusto, posting daily Facebook updates and debuting a tailored app featuring news about his everyday life.

The strongman’s Facebook page, minted in September, has already garnered 3.2 million ‘likes’, becoming one of the country’s fastest-growing and most popular pages. But his political rival, self-exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy, has now accused the premier of hiring foreigners to create fake Facebook accounts to artificially boost his page’s popularity.

The allegation came after the English daily Phnom Penh Post reported that nearly half of Hun Sen’s thumbs of approval came from accounts based outside the country, mostly from India. Rainsy’s page has fewer overall ‘likes’ at nearly 2.3 million but more come from inside Cambodia, according to the report.

read more: http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/1926884/cambodias-hun-sen-denies-buying-facebook-likes

[Katipo]

I don't know why they both with these "xxxxxx denies doing xxxxx" articles. When in history has a corrupt politician/businessman ever admitted to wrong doing? It's just a waste of ink.