พระพุทธศาสนากับการแก้ปัญหาข่าวปลอมในสังคมไทย

Abstract

The article’s objectives are to explore the Buddhist principles, to organize learning process and the Buddhist integration and to develop a model in solving fake news in the Thai societies founded on the Buddhist principles. This is a participatory workshop applying mixed method approach and a qualitative research through in-depth interviews conducted with the representatives who participate in the Program of Monks’ Network Watch over Religious Propaganda focusing on exploring the Buddhist principles, organizing learning process and the Buddhist integration until arriving at developing a model to solve fake news in the Thai societies founded on the Buddhist principles. Results revealed that the released fake news brought distortions, and misunderstanding to people in general. They emerged distorted ideas and distorted beliefs led to the loss of money, health, sentiments, job and career, and social dissensions.  The Buddhist principles in solving fake news in the Thai societies encircled Kālāmasutta 10 (advices to investigate doctrines), Ovādapāṭimokkha (the principal teaching), Yonisomanasikāra (proper attention), and Musāvāda (lying) principles and more. News consumers should know media’s tricks before helping recipients understand their own lives and needs towards media. It should be imperative to create learning process for achievement which was involving impulses, arriving at concept and emerging learning process vested with integrations for addressing fake news. This could involve 2 issues, i.e., (1) inventing instruments to check fake news founded on the Buddhist principles and 2)  organizing activities to immunize fake news within communities. As such, there is a rise of a center for coordinating monks with creative news for peace. The approach of the coordination center is to produce dhamic media easing the local members in reading, understanding and disseminating to them to recognize and become indispensable weapon which monks can disseminate and to well equip them with knowledge about fake news.