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In Singapore, the government did not appreciate a message posted on an anti-government site and could force Facebook to publish a patch next to this post thanks to a law passed last October. A law intended, according to independent media and human rights defenders, to stifle discordant voices.
" Facebook is legally obliged to inform you that the Singapore government ensures that this message contains false information, " it is the corrigendum that accompanies from now on the post of Alex Tan, who directs the site States Times Review. His post published on November 22 said the elections in Singapore are rigged to ensure the continuation of the People's Party.
At first, the authorities had asked Alex Tan to post a rectification himself, which this Australian citizen, living abroad, had refused.
Last Monday, a member of an opposition party, living in Singapore, had executed him for a message also published on Facebook. This was the first case of using the anti-infox law.
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A law came into force last October, threatening fines of 660,000 euros for groups like Facebook, and 10 years in prison for a publication deemed " malicious and prejudicial to the interests of Singapor ". A law that, according to human rights defenders, is likely to encourage self-censorship.
This is not the case of Alex Tan, who claims to have republished his message on Twitter , Gooogle and Linkedin, and challenges the government to order these companies to publish, there too, corrigenda.