❓ Claim checked: The Election Commission (EC) approved the “Khon La Khrueng Plus Phase 2” program.
❌ Fact-check result: False. The EC confirmed that there has been no approval.
📝 Summary of the content: On 5 January 2026, a TikTok account named “ข่าวเด่น NEWS” posted a video with on-screen text saying: “EC gives the green light to Khon La Khrueng Plus Phase 2.” The narration claimed that the Cabinet (Cabinet of Ministers) meeting on 4 January approved the Khon La Khrueng Plus Phase 2 program as proposed by the Minister of Finance, with a budget of 50 billion baht, and that the Election Commission had approved the program to move forward. The video used footage from Channel 3’s program “Ruang Den Yen Ni” as visual material.
As of 12 January, the clip had more than 2 million views and over 26,500 shares.
The same TikTok account posted a similar clip on 8 January, claiming that the Cabinet and the EC approved the budget for Khon La Khrueng Plus Phase 2 on 7 January, this time using footage from Channel 7’s news program “Sanam Khao” as visuals.
🔎 Cofact’s verification: A review of Cabinet meeting information published on the website of the Secretariat of the Cabinet found that no Cabinet meetings were held on 4 or 7 January, as claimed in the videos. At the Cabinet meeting on 6 January, there was no discussion of the Khon La Khrueng Plus program.
Cofact contacted the Election Commission, which confirmed that there has been no approval of Khon La Khrueng Plus Phase 2 during this period.
Previously, Siripong Angkasakulkiat, spokesperson for the Office of the Prime Minister, told the media on 22 December 2025 that the government had already discussed the Khon La Khrueng Plus Phase 2 program with the EC. The conclusion was that after the dissolution of parliament on 12 December, the government was operating in a caretaker capacity and therefore could not proceed with the program.
Cofact found that since late 2025, a large number of false claims about the rollout of Khon La Khrueng Plus Phase 2 have been circulating. These often use footage from legitimate news reports combined with fabricated voice-overs imitating news anchors, falsely making the clips appear to be genuine reports from those media outlets.
For example, the clip posted on 5 January 2026 was derived from an original news video titled “Plans dashed! PM says Khon La Khrueng Plus Phase 2 cannot proceed yet, must wait for a regular government” from the program “Ruang Den Yen Ni”, published on the TikTok account “Krobkrua Khao 3” (Channel 3) on 16 December 2025.
Similarly, the clip posted on 7 January 2026 was edited from a video report titled “Elderly advised to link PromptPay before receiving 10,000 baht, Phase 2”, published on the 7HD website on 13 January 2025, and altered to falsely resemble a current report from that outlet.
