{"id":34592,"date":"2021-07-30T21:33:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T12:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/30\/thailand-bans-sharing-of-news-that-causes-public-fear-amid-pandemic-criticism"},"modified":"2021-07-30T21:33:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T12:33:23","slug":"thailand-bans-sharing-of-news-that-causes-public-fear-amid-pandemic-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34592","title":{"rendered":"Thailand bans sharing of news that \u2018causes public fear\u2019 amid pandemic criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Measures condemned by media and rights groups as attempt to shut down negative news reports <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Thai government has outlawed sharing news that \u201ccauses public fear\u201d, even if such reports are true, as officials face mounting criticism over their handling of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the government tightened an emergency decree imposed more than a year ago that initially targeted false news. The latest constrictions forbid people from distributing \u201cinformation causing public fear\u201d, or from sharing \u201cdistorted information causing misunderstanding which affects national stability\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/30\/thailand-bans-sharing-of-news-that-causes-public-fear-amid-pandemic-criticism\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Measures condemned by media and rights groups as attempt to shut down negative news reports Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Thai government has outlawed sharing news that \u201ccauses public fear\u201d, even if such reports are tr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34604,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34592\/revisions\/34604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}