Pofma office orders National Times Singapore to correct misleading Facebook post

SINGAPORE - The National Times Singapore Facebook page has been asked to put up corrections to a post in which multiple false and misleading statements were made about the scope and application of the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act .

The Ministry of Law said in a separate statement on Wednesday this was the seventh occasion in which correction directions under Pofma have been issued against a Facebook page run by Mr Tan,"who has repeatedly and deliberately conveyed falsehoods affecting the public interest". On May 15, the National Times Singapore Facebook page published a post claiming, among other things, that"every criticism has been outlawed by the Singapore government through its new Pofma legislation, where the politicians in power get to decide what is truth".Pofma applies only to factual statements that are false and does not apply to opinions, it added, noting that disputes on whether a statement is false can be determined by the Courts.

The Facebook post also stated that Mr Shanmugam had issued a Pofma direction to ban an online video in which historian Thum Ping Tjin asserted that Singapore's fake news law renders all criticism of the Government illegal.

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