SINGAPORE - The Online Citizen Asia and its publisher Terry Xu have been ordered under the fake news law to post corrections to an online article and social media posts that made false accusations against the police in a 2021 incident.
TOC had alleged that police officers were taunting and reprimanding the woman for not wearing a mask then, which coincided with the initial stage of the Covid-19 pandemic here. The officers had also reminded the woman to wear her mask, “in view of the Covid-19 situation at that time, and the prevailing requirements to wear a mask in public places”, MHA said.
The police added: “Xu alleged that the police misrepresented and lied to the elderly woman’s NOK that the elderly woman was lost, and that this resulted in the NOK filing a police report on the issue. This is a blatant fabrication.
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