Instead, the global problems with our online information ecosystem compound.
Mr. Sen and his cronies own or control all but the thinnest sliver of the country’s media outlets.
And curtailing speech on social media has been critical to the consolidation of their power.
In Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro’s Office of Hate, run by his sons, used social media to defame journalists and threaten opposition.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the autocrat recently re-elected as president of Turkey, benefited greatly from organized troll armies operating on Twitter.
Persons:
Hun Sen, Sen, Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Organizations:
Big Tech, Facebook, Jair, Hate, Twitter
Locations:
Cambodia, Meta, China, Brazil, Turkey, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Philippines, Myanmar