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UNBELIEVABLE: Des blocks 5k offensive sites | History Defined

Fact-checking website Thai D.I. Machine was launched on International Fact-Checking Day 2021 in April last year to allow the general public to fact-check suspicious information by themselves. (Photo: Somchai Poomlard)

Almost 5,000 web addresses have been blocked for running illegal content, including lese majeste and pornography, says the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society (DES).

In the first nine months of this year, the ministry blocked 4,735 URLs on 183 court orders, according to the DES.

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