TOC hired foreigners to pen negative articles, says Shanmugam

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an interesting local example related to foreign meddling is the Pink Dot Campaign, where the govt disallows foreign funding, the reason given being that only Singaporeans should be allowed to dictate the direction which they want the society to head towards, as only they have a stake here, unlike foreigners...

Part of the problem is that the business models of such companies militate against proper self-regulation. The more content and users such sites have, the more user attention they can sell to advertisers....

"Removing fake users, removing fake accounts, investigating coordinated inauthentic behaviour - these are all costly," he said. "The tech companies are in a position of conflict, where their business interests often conflict with what needs to be done in the broader society's interests."

For qns on:
=the media
=need for censorship/regulation
=foreign countries meddling with another (think Russian meddling in US Presidential Elections, HK protest, etc....)
=whether businesses have other obligations apart from profit-maximization (i.e. accountable only to their shareholders who are only interested in profits)