Fake News and Elections in Southeast Asia

This book offers a regional analysis of the impact of fake news - misinformation, mal-information and dis-information - on electoral democracy and freedom of expression in Southeast Asia, in the midst of a global health pandemic. It will be of interest in Political Science, Asian Politics & Southeast Asian Politics.

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.

1 Introduction - Fake News and Elections in Southeast Asia 2 Shaping the Fake News Discourse: Laws, Electoral Arenas and the Emergence of Truth as a Public Interest 3 Fake News in Cambodia: A Pretext for Preventive Political Repression 4 Fake News and Violence against Women in Indonesia's Elections 5 Najib Tun Razak, 1MDB, Social Media and the Fall of Barisan Nasional in the 14th General Election 6 Fake in the Mainstream: The Media, the Military and Myanmar's Elections 7 Fake News and Elections in Myanmar 8 Fake News and State Violence: How Duterte Hijacked the Election and Democracy in the Philippines 9 Singapore's Anti-Fake News Law: Grabbing the Election by Using Falsehoods to Discredit the Opposition 10 Thailand's 2019 General Election: Anti-Fake News Practices and the Securitisation of Media Spaces 11 Political Criticism as Fake News: How Brunei, Laos and Vietnam Suppress Democracy 12 Conclusion - The Future of Democratic Elections in Southeast Asia