Singapore Orders Facebook to Correct User’s Social-Media Post
Authorities in this city-state directed Facebook Inc. on Friday to publish a correction to a post by a user on the social-media website, marking the first test for the tech giant since Singapore passed a sweeping law this year to combat what it sees as online falsehoods and fake news.
The government said it had issued a “targeted correction direction” to Facebook in connection with a post containing allegations that authorities had made a wrongful arrest. The information was incorrect and no such arrest had been made, the government said.
Its order requires Facebook to publish a “correction notice” in a way that users of the platform in Singapore who see the original post also see the correction....