Second round of Pofma sanctions for owner of The Online Citizen’s website, social media accounts


This is the second time that The Online Citizen has been slapped with the declaration, with its first due to expire in July 2025. - The Online Citizen/Facebook via ST/ANN

SINGAPORE: The people running The Online Citizen’s (TOC) website, Facebook, Instagram and X pages will continue to be barred from deriving any financial benefits from the running of its platforms till 2027.

In a statement on June 11, the Ministry of Digital Development and Information (MDDI) said TOC’s website and social media pages – which were labelled as Declared Online Locations (DOLs) – had first been declared as such in July 2023, and were due to expire on July 21, 2025.

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