Enforcing a fake news law in the run up to a national election, authorities in Singapore have ordered that online references to some comments made by opposition figures on key issues must carry a warning that the content contains false information.
FILE PHOTO: Women wearing face masks use their mobile phones as haze shrouds Singapore's central business district August 26, 2016. REUTERS/Edgar Su
Since campaigning began on July 1, opposition candidates have been taken to task under the law over comments made on three issues; government spending for foreign students, plans to grow the city-state’s 5.7 million population to 10 million, and government advisories that discouraged COVID-19 testing for foreign workers.
As yet, no lawmakers from the ruling People’s Action Party - which has governed since independence in 1965 - have been served correction orders. Government ministers usually have the power to exercise the law, but during the election period this responsibility has been handed to senior civil servants.
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