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How Thai authorities use online doxxing to suppress dissent
A sustained, coordinated social media harassment and doxxing campaign – which we codenamed JUICYJAM – targeting the pro-democracy movement in Thailand has run uninterrupted, and unchallenged, since at least August 2020. Through our analysis of public social media posts we determined that the campaign was not only inauthentic, but the information revealed could not have been reasonably sourced from a private individual.
A doxxing post( archive) published by the Facebook Page “เจ๊จุก คลองสาม FC v.1”, sharing the location of a bakery owned by the sister of pro-democracy protester Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul and encouraging followers to leave a negative review. View footnotes and The ultimate goal of following up doxxing with judicial harassment – a process that has been documented in previous research – is to reduce the target to silence and inaction, if not exile, through the combined power of covert and overt repression. While JUICYJAM did primarily post pictures and videos taken at public demonstrations, it very frequently enriched them with private information and footage, including in certain cases government IDs and other official documents – which would most definitely qualify as “a breach of [the targets’] privacy” and posing “serious safety and security risks for those affected”.
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