SG Home Minister Shanmugam vehemently defended POFMA fake news law at #ReutersNext. Alluding to “information warfare” he said: “More angry people = more 👀& more ad rev for social media. Industrialisation of falsehood undermines sovereignty of a country.” https://t.co/rnW6A1l5UN
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Social media firms are hampered by their commercial interests when tackling fake news, Singapore’s law minister K. Shanmugam said at the #ReutersNext conference https://t.co/e7PeQzIgy2 https://t.co/edzGnBKyZc
In this abridged interview he points to the monopoly power held by social media companies, the anti-trust issues & fake news, calling them global concerns while stating that the matter has to be arbitrated through some sort of a judicial process https://t.co/C6YJRnperd