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a ceasefire to halt their bloody border clashes

The five-day conflict left more than 40 people dead and drove more than 300,000 from their homes.

It also kicked off a disinformation blitz as Thai and Cambodian partisans alike sought to boost the narrative that the other was to blame.

Thai officials recorded more than 500 million instances of online attacks in recent days, government spokesperson Jirayu Huangsab said on July 30.

These included spamming reports to online platforms and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks – halting access to a website by overloading its servers with traffic.

“It’s a psychological war,” Cambodian government spokesperson Pen Bona told AFP.

“There’s a lot of fake news and it would not be strange if it came from social media users, but even official Thai media outlets themselves publish a lot of fake news.”

Freshly created “avatar” accounts have targeted popular users or media accounts in Thailand.

On July 24, a Facebook post by suspended Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra condemning Cambodia’s use of force was bombarded with 16,000 comments, many of them repeating the same message in English: “Queen of drama in Thailand”.

Another, similar post by Ms Paetongtarn on July 26 was hit with 31,800 comments, many reading: “Best drama queen of 2025,” with snake and crocodile emojis.

Government spokesperson Jirayu said the attacks were aimed at “sowin...