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Singapore's Fake News and Contempt Laws a Threat to Media, Journalists Say

VOA News

   A pair of Singaporean laws designed to block false news and criticism
   of the courts are being used to silence and harass independent news
   outlets, rights groups and journalists say.

   The latest government injunction, handed down April 19, targeted an
   independently owned news outlet for reporting the salary of Ho Ching,
   chief executive of state-owned investment firm Temasek Holdings and the
   wife of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

   [1]Calling the salary figures inaccurately reported, the government
   invoked a fake news law forcing editors of The Online Citizen (TOC) to
   issue "correction notices" or risk facing fines of up to $14,000 US
   (20,000 Singapore dollars) or a year in jail.

References

   1. https://bit.ly/2VNwEZR

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