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

SINGAPORE: The Singaporean government on Friday again invoked its recently enacted “fake news” law, this time ordering Facebook 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 had arrested a government whistle-blower and taken down information that exposed a plot to turn the affluent city into a Christian state. Singapore introduced its controversial fake news law as it prepares to hold general elections by April 2021.