🇹🇭 Social media posts falsely claim photo shows Thai PM was 'forced to avoid protest gesture' in election run-up
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A photo of Thailand’s prime minister signalling with his hands to indicate his party candidate’s ballot number in the upcoming general election has been shared in posts that falsely claim he was forced to avoid making a"three-finger salute", synonymous with pro-democracy activists in Thailand, because the candidate’s number was three. In fact, the photo -- shared hundreds of times -- shows Prayut Chan-O-Cha signalling the number 12, the ballot number assigned to the Bangkok candidate.
The photo shows Prayut, who leads the United Thai Nation party, posing with his candidate Pongpol Yodmuangcharoen."Karmic justice. When Prayut's ballot number turns out to be 3," reads the Thai-language caption of theA Facebook page for News Show -- a programme broadcast on Thai broadcaster Thairath -- also shared the false claim in a post
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