So there’ll be laws to tackle deliberate online falsehoods (more below).
Maybe ST and other SPH publications can use their finely honed constructive, nation-building skills to make SPH a great investment again?
The People’s Daily is the CCP’s official paper, juz like ST is the de-facto voice of the PAP.
The rise of the internet has lost it readers it but it has found a competitive business advantage: providing censorship. China’s official newspaper is tapping into the censorship boom meant to clean up the Chinese internet by being the leading outsourcer in the booming censorship industry.
Coming back to S’pore. From the constructive, nation-building CNA.
The new Bill will give the Government the power to hold online news sources and platforms accountable if they proliferate deliberate online falsehoods, he said.
“This includes requiring them to show corrections or display warnings about online falsehoods so that readers or viewers can see all sides and make up their own minds about the matter.
“In extreme and urgent cases, the legislation will also require online news sources to take down fake news before irreparable damage is done,” the prime minister said.
Mr Lee said that today, there is no shortage of people and groups who conduct coordinated campaigns to produce fake news to misinform and mislead for reasons such as financial gain, to sow social discord or even to radicalise people.
Social media platforms propagate such fake news together with factual stories and are either “unwilling or unable” to take action to block the misinformation, he said.
Can’t argue with PM that
there is no shortage of people and groups who conduct coordinated campaigns to produce fake news to misinform and mislead for reasons such as financial gain, to sow social discord …
Think TOC’s Danisha Hakeem.
Or The Indians Idiots
— TISG: “useful loudhailer” for PAP administration
— “The Idiots — S’pore” keeps on promoting divisiveness?
But to be fair, TOC can be constructive, nation-building:
TOC now part of constructive, nation-building media?
Terry and his Correspondent taking wrong pills again
