Army denies hiring firm to do IO after data leak
Leaked slides only used for training personnel, says deputy spokesperson
The Royal Thai Army has denied using taxpayers’ money to hire a company to conduct an information operation (IO) for it after a document leak that indicates its efforts at IO are anything but over after a Twitter ban last month.
Following the leak of documents on what the IO team is supposed to do on Twitter this week, deputy army spokesperson Sirichan Ngathong admitted the documents were authentic but explained the army had not hired any company to conduct IO.
The leak came just a few weeks after Twitter shut down hundreds of accounts that it said were linked to an army-backed disinformation campaign against…
