Three social media influencers were in custody today on suspicion of insulting the monarchy in a sketch they filmed for online selling platform Lazada.
Kittikoon Thammakitiraj, a transgender blogger and model known as Mom Dew, was being held Thursday afternoon at the Technology Crime Supression Division in Bangkok’s Lak Si over a complaint that she impersonated the Queen Mother Sirikit in an ad campaign that was quickly pulled after it aired last month.
“Mom was terrified. There is a car waiting to pick me up in front of the house,” she wrote on Facebook this morning. “This is right across Central Plaza Ladprao. Save your mother.”
#SaveMomDew was trending on Thai socials today along with calls to release the popular online personality.
In early May, boycott calls were issued against Lazada after its TikTok ad campaign offended many by appearing…
