Sri Lanka hosts sports events and tech awards while misinformation spreads in Southeast Asia

In Sri Lanka, several sports events took place, including a school aquatic meet where St. Benedict's was named overall champion, a golf tournament featuring foreign players, and the announcement of an IRONMAN 70.3 triathlon in Colombo. The tech company 99x won a gold award, and a government minister called for the ethical use of artificial intelligence.

In other parts of Southeast Asia, false information circulated online. In Indonesia, a hoax about free internet service spread during Ramadan. In Malaysia, users were lured to a fake government website with a bogus laptop offer. In Thailand, the army rebutted fake news claims about its border, and an image of an opposition party's team was revealed to be AI-generated.