Facebook caught in crossfire of Singapore’s ‘fake news’ law


The Facebook logo and binary cyber codes are seen in this illustration taken November 26, 2019. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

The Singaporean government on Nov 29 again invoked its recently enacted "fake news” law, this time ordering Facebook Inc to publish a correction notice on a post made by an anti-government blog.

In the third such order in a week, an arm of the Ministry of Communications and Information instructed Facebook to correct a States Times Review post accused of using falsehoods to criticise the ruling People’s Action Party. The government had previously denounced the report, that police arrested a government whistleblower and taken down information that exposed a plot to turn the affluent city into a Christian state.

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