grounds of "discrimination, verbal abuses, and posting inappropriate statements on Facebook". In July 2020, he was appointed special advisor to the Prime Minister with a brief of reducing the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand. Tactics The RCO engages in doxing, the practice of investigating and making public online identities, then reports these to the authorities. Tactics have also included intimidation, by posting photos of the October 1976 Thammasat University massacre, and posting nude or otherwise offensive photos to victims' Facebook pages, followed by allegations that the page owner had in this way committed cybercrimes. The RCO has also mobbed victims' homes and places of work. One of the early targets of the RCO was Kamol Duangphasuk, who was subsequently assassinated. The RCO also targets victims overseas at their home addresses and their families, with one victim’s parents being "forced to file a lèse-majesté case against their own daughter".:30 Main campaigns 2015 campaign After the 2014 Thai military coup, there was a resurgence in state-sponsored online crackdowns and vigilante activity targeting anti-regime protesters, including by the RCO. In January 2015, the RCO targeted the United Nations High Commission for Refugees after it assisted an activist accused of lèse majesté to flee to New Zealand. In late September, 2015, the RCO targeted Sunai Phasuk, a researcher for Human Rights Watch. In October 2015, the RCO targeted the US Embassy in Bangkok, delivering a statement to President Obama, asking him to repatriate lèse majesté who had fled overseas, including to the United Kingdom. Later the same month, the RCO directly targeted Facebook and Youtube for carrying content it deemed as causing lèse-majesté. In late 2015, Rienthong temporarily withdrew from the RCO. 2016 campaign In 2016, the RCO was active in seeking out Thais who did not dress in mourning wear following the death of Thai king Bhumibol Adulyadej. 2020 campaign In July 2020, the RCO became a protagonist in the 2020 Thai protests, targeting the student protesters. It launched its “Extinguish the Future Project”, which aims “to create a list of individuals which companies, government agencies, and educational institutions must ban from being employed, enrolling for study or receiving scholarships.” RCO supporters were ordered to infiltrate the protesters, discover their identities, and then engage in a mass campaign of publicly discrediting them. The campaign provoked a massive reaction on Thai social media, including from Thai stars like Intira Jaroenpura, and