SINGAPORE - Government officials have rebutted articles by Bloomberg and the South China Morning Post on Singapore's fake news law, the latest in a series of such responses to media outlets.
"We have never shied from answering our foreign critics on any issue. They can say what they please. All we insist upon is the right of reply," she said. Their rebuttals follow earlier ones by Singapore's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Foo Chi Hsia, its Ambassador to the United States Ashok Kumar Mirpuri, and Ministry of Communications and Information director for information policy Bernard Toh.
While the Pofma Code of Practice imposes transparency requirements on political advertising, it does not ban such advertisements.Facebook continued to accept such advertisements but imposed advertising transparency measures globally."Three giant social media companies, three different global decisions on political advertising - yet your report linked them all with the Singapore government and alleged"opposition fears" over Pofma," Ms Ho said.
In her reply to SCMP over its Dec 21 article,"Singapore's fake news law: protecting the truth, or restricting free debate?", Ms Foo said the Government has detailed the falsehoods and the public interest involved in each instance when it issued correction notices.