​Select Committee on fake news: Measures against falsehoods need not curtail freedom of speech

The Straits Times online, 20 Sep

A calibrated approach is needed to tackle online falsehoods, to address concerns that countermeasures may impinge on freedom of speech, the Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods said in a report released on Thursday (Sept 20). The committee noted that despite suggestions that it could be difficult to define deliberate online falsehoods, potentially leading to unfair censorship, representors such as Assoc Prof Alton Chua from NTU explained that this can be done using verifiable data.