Lisa Phakmon criticized the government for using information operations to demean the media and citizens, thereby undermining the peace process in the southern border provinces. She emphasized that development strategies should begin with sincerity and transparency, not covert attacks.
On 23 April 2026, during a parliamentary session, Ms. Phakmon Noon Anan, a party-list MP from the Prachachon Party, spoke on the draft policy for administration and development of the southern border provinces for 2025–2027 by the National Security Council (NSC). She posed a key question about whether the NSC's security policy truly includes the welfare of citizens, journalists, and politicians who face stigmatization and degradation of their human dignity.
Ms. Phakmon stated that there is now a systematic production of language that dehumanizes people, pushing those who question or seek the truth to become enemies of the state. She questioned how the NSC can advance peace policies if their documents ignore the reality of security concerning citizen welfare and allow severe harassment of academics and journalists, with the state itself perceived as complicit simply because these individuals demand transparency in the three southern border provinces.
Additionally, Ms. Phakmon cited global reports from social media platforms, including Twitter in 2020, which shut down over 900 IO-linked accounts connected to the army, and Facebook in 2021, which uncovered similar behavior linked to the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC). She presented publicly released evidence confirming that IO operations by the military, directed by ISOC and the army, do exist. These operations involve personnel commenting to disparage and attack political dissenters, funded by taxpayers at a rate of 240 baht per day.
She further highlighted the severity of IO as a strategy to silence the media and cultivate a culture of fear. She referenced the case of senior journalist Thapanee Iadsrichai, who was relentlessly targeted by IO pages over personal matters simply for investigating the shooting of MP Kamolsak Liwamo of the Prachachat Party. Ms. Phakmon viewed such operations not only as efforts to silence one individual but as signals to the entire media system to self-censor out of fear, severely harming democratic society and undermining peace negotiations.
Ms. Phakmon concluded that the current problems in the three southern border provinces involve not only physical violence but also a "war of words" in which the state attempts to wield power by creating hateful speech to monopolize the truth. She believes that efforts to resolve the conflict will fail as long as the state avoids speaking the truth. She emphasized that development strategies for the south must begin with sincerity and genuine respect for the equal value of all citizens' lives.