1st Edition
Fake News and Elections in Southeast Asia Impact on Democracy and Human Rights
1 Introduction – Fake News and Elections in Southeast Asia James Gomez and Robin Ramcharan 2 Shaping the Fake News Discourse: Laws, Electoral Arenas and the Emergence of Truth as a Public Interest Lasse Schuldt 3 Fake News in Cambodia: A Pretext for Preventive Political Repression Marc Piñol Rovira 4 Fake News and Violence against Women in Indonesia’s Elections Nukila Evanty and Fenny Tria Yunita 5 Najib Tun Razak, 1MDB, Social Media and the Fall of Barisan Nasional in the 14th General Election Azeem Ahmad Farouk and Azrina Husin 6 Fake in the Mainstream: The Media, the Military and Myanmar’s Elections Kenneth Houston 7 Fake News and Elections in Myanmar Hunter S. Marston 8 Fake News and State Violence: How Duterte Hijacked the Election and Democracy in the Philippines Wataru Kusaka 9 Singapore’s Anti-Fake News Law: Grabbing the Election by Using Falsehoods to Discredit the Opposition Roy Y.L. Ngerng 10 Thailand’s 2019 General Election: Anti-Fake News Practices and the Securitisation of Media Spaces Attasit Pankaew and Wasin Punthong 11 Political Criticism as Fake News: How Brunei, Laos and Vietnam Suppress Democracy James Gomez and Yawee Butrkrawee 12 Conclusion – The Future of Democratic Elections in Southeast Asia James Gomez and Robin Ramcharan
Biography
James Gomez is Regional Director at Asia Centre, Thailand. He provides strategic oversight for the development and regionalisation of the Centre.
Robin Ramcharan is Executive Director at Asia Centre and Lecturer at Mahidol University International College. He oversees the research and publication projects of the Centre. He lectures on international affairs at Mahidol University International College.
