Share More than 1,000 cases of fake, objectionable news identified Tue, 19 January 2021 In 2020, the Ministry of Information identified sources of objectionable or illegal material on social media including fake news and disinformation, various incitements, unfair criticism of the nation’s leadership and insults to the King totalling 1,343 cases. The ministry revoked, among others, three media licences of organisations that violated the law in 2020, according to Phos Sovann, director-general of the ministry’s General Department of Information and Broadcasting. At the forum on Internet Safety during Covid-19 pandemic on January 19, Sovann said more than 1,000 instances of fake news and disinformation had been spread by at least 103 different social media sources over the course of 2020.