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Monday, April 29, 2019

Fake news must be curbed before it affects society: PM Lee

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Note this new law:
the new Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Bill.


Note these useful examples and stats:

a recent survey which showed that most Singaporeans are confident they can distinguish between real and fake news. Last September, an online survey by market research agency Ipsos showed that 80 per cent of survey respondents were confident they could spot fake news, even though 90 per cent of them later mistakenly identified fake headlines as real.

the Prime Minister said there was a website that used his pictures and his name to market a bitcoin investment...."They had 'quoted me' as saying that the product is very good and that I encouraged everyone to invest. It was absurd. But when others see it, how would they know if it's real or fake?" said PM Lee.