re: "Who decides on fake news?" (Editorial, June 28)
Dear editor,
As seen over the past fortnight, the most apparent example of material uploaded to online systems intent on stirring up divisive national hatred being the unsubstantiated accusations made by the anti-monarchist witch hunters, it will be interesting to see exactly what steps the military groups charged to do so by Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwon will take to counter such acts harmful to national unity.
And civil people respectful of honesty as the foundation of informed opinion on national affairs must wonder whether all those amazing promises made then and subsequently by the politicians who insisted, prior to May 22, 2014, that they were not planning to overthrow Thailand's constitution and form of democracy with a constitutional monarchy count as fake news or not when duly uploaded to online computer systems.
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on June 29, 2019, under the title "Fake news promises" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1704048/fake-news-promises