External parties trying to influence Singapore, people here should guard themselves: Vivian Balakrishnan

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Singaporeans are exposed to a wide variety of messages in the "whole tsunami" of social media and private messaging. 

there were messages floating around in Singapore in Chinese and English related to the Ukraine war that tried to stir up strong anti-American sentiments. There were also others that aimed to discredit Russia and China, and sought to persuade people to side with the West.

social media platforms are optimised for revenue maximisation and not for the propagation of facts or reasonable, rational discourse. "What has wings on social media, and you just go by the algorithms, anything that incites, anything that makes people angry, anything that is scandalous or raises emotional temperatures, those are the messages that thrive..."By its very nature, social media is optimised sometimes for the more base nature of humanity and it's related to profit maximisation

we are not just going to swallow everything hook, line and sinker