Singapore Isn’t Waiting for Facebook to Crack Down on Fake News

The new measures will require online sites to show corrections to false or misleading claims and take down falsehoods, according to a bill put forward in Parliament on Monday by the government. Account restriction directions can be issued to a platform to disable a fake account or bot that spreads a falsehood undermining the public interest, the government said in parliament. "There are a lot of falsehoods being propagated," Singapore Law Minister K Shanmugam told reporters on Monday.

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