SINGAPORE — Minister for Communications and Information S Iswaran has on Saturday declared the States Times Review Facebook page a Declared Online Location under the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act .
The declaration will make it an offence for Alex Tan, owner of the STR Facebook page, to derive benefit from operating the page. It also bans any kind of financial support for the page for purposes of promoting its communication of falsehoods. Repeatedly conveyed falsehoodsThe STR Facebook page has repeatedly conveyed numerous falsehoods, three of which were the subjects of POFMA directions from November 2019.
The STR Facebook page has not complied with any of the POFMA directions that it has been served with. MCI said that the page is linked to other websites operated by Tan, which derive monetary benefits from the falsehoods.
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