​Select Committee makes 22 recommendations to deal with fake news threat to Singapore

Channel NewsAsia online, 20 Sep

The Select Committee tasked to look into the problem of combating deliberate online falsehoods has made 22 recommendations to deal with the issue, saying in its report released on Thursday (Sep 20) that Singapore has “been the subject of foreign, state-sponsored disinformation operations”. The committee also received evidence on how Singapore’s regional context can contribute to its vulnerability to harmful falsehoods online. For one, societal fault lines run across national borders, it said. NTU’s Liew Kai Khiun was mentioned citing an example relating to the crisis faced by Muslims in the Rakhine state of Myanmar and how reports by local media on the crisis would attract comments on their social media pages refuting the reports.