Thai dictator Prayut Chan-ocha has shared a video on social media of comically inept paid foreign protesters calling for Thai democracy in New York.
They appear to be linked to the mysterious organisation https://thaidemocracynow.org which no genuine Thai democracy activist has ever heard of.
It's clear from the website of the organisation, which is professionally produced but with no Thai-language content, and the crazy idea of hiring random foreigners to pretend to be fighting for Thai democracy, that this is a fake organisation run by an international PR or black ops propaganda company. These kind of companies are not cheap and whoever is behind this has paid a lot of money
I'm going to investigate what is going on. At the moment I have two theories.
1. It may be a misguided attempt by some wealthy pro-democracy Thais, working with a dubious PR company, to disrupt Prayut's visit to New York. If so, this was a terrible idea, and it undermines the courage of the real Thai activists who bravely protested at Prayut's lecture to the Asia Society yesterday.
2. It may be a false flag operation by Prayut's international PR team to support the fake narrative that critics of the Thai regime are foreigners trying to damage Thailand. This is less likely than theory 1, but it's possible.
I will do more investigation and share what I find out.
