Three weeks have passed since the general election, and the Thai media is still flooded with fake news and disinformation of all kinds. Essentially, these are designed to harm a particular individual, a political group or the country. Overall, the country's domestic environment is very fluid. Aside from efforts to form a new coalition government, the most important issues are related to national security and diplomacy.
Conspiracy theories and hearsay have become the country's most formidable challenges because of people's addiction to rumours (khao lue). Due to the ubiquitous use of social media among the population, information creators and content propagators have become celebrities with huge followings. The snowball effect is enormous and is compounded by the increasing difficulty of checking facts or sources.
