In just four days Luon Sovath, a Buddhist monk who spent decades fighting for human rights in Cambodia, had his reputation destroyed in a Facebook campaign instituted by the government. On Facebook he was accused of sleeping with his three sisters and their mother. Then the government-controlled religious council defrocked him, based on the Facebook page. He had to flee the country to live in exile.
Why would people in Cambodia believe such crap? That would be as if hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. believed that Hillary Clinton and George Soros were involved in a child pornography ring and actually drank the blood of small children. And as if our President spoke highly of those people.
Oh, wait....
The info on the Cambodian monk is from Hannah Beech and Sun Narin, “How a Regime Used Facebook To Tar a Critic,” New York Times, (Aug. 23, 2020), pp. 1, 12.
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