Saturday, February 3, 2018

Asia's strongmen follow Trump's lead on fake news

Among many who have been following the trend of Fake News, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte as one of them claims to "in branding any news organization that he doesn't like, or any news organization which will publish a story that is uncomfortable to his government, as fake news." Furthermore, "In Cambodia, two journalists who had worked for the US Congress-funded outlet Radio Free Asia, Uon Chhin and Yeang Sothearin, were detained on espionage charges, RFA reported late last year." Also," in Cambodia, the respected Cambodia Daily was shuttered by the government last year after failure to pay a $6.3 million tax bill. The paper says the bill was politically motivated. [2 images, 1 link, 114 words, 3 quotations]

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