Fake news law: Correction notice issued to States Times Review

SINGAPORE — A correction direction has been issued against sociopolitical website States Times Review over a Facebook post that falsely claimed several individuals have been arrested over a recent post about Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam.

The direction requires Tan – who is based in Sydney – to carry in full, the correction notice at the top of his Facebook post, which was published on 23 November. The POFMA Office said that Tan’s post contains “false statements of fact” about the aftermath of a Facebook post by a spoof National University of Singapore page.

The subsequent STR post then claimed that the “whistleblower who exposed the PAP candidate’s Christian affiliations has since been arrested, and fac[es] Police charges for 'fabricating fake news'". It further claimed that the owner of the page has been arrested on Shanmugam’s orders. The POFMA Office added that STR has also made “scurrilous accusations” against the Elections Department, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, and the election process in Singapore.

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