Senator Jeff Flake (Arizona) in his address to Congress on January 17th, made the point that dictators around the world are following Trump’s lead by calling any news they don’t like, fake. This CNN article examine’s its influence in Southeast Asia.

The most significant line in the article comes from a former Al Jazeera journalist (now a professor of journalism at Queensland University) who spent more than 400 days in captivity in Egypt after being convicted of spreading fake news, who said ” Trump has “shown no inclination to criticize or oppose (authoritarian) regimes.”

Full Article from CNN:

Asia’s strongmen follow Trump’s lead on fake news by Euan McKirdy, CNN