SINGAPORE, Oct 19 — Mediacorp has lodged a police report in Singapore after a Facebook comment criticising the establishment was allegedly posted from the official Channel NewsAsia (CNA) account, The Straits Times reported on Friday.
Singapore’s national media network and largest content broadcaster said the report was filed to “help verify the screenshot’s authenticity and origin” after the image began circulating online on Thursday.
In the screenshot, posted by filmmaker Yusri Shaggy Sapari, the Singapore-based news organisation’s verified Facebook account appeared to comment on a 2015 post by Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam about former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew’s legacy and Singapore’s future.
The comment read: “Typical playbook — talking to their base, rally their troops and generals but their real target is actually to corner and neutralise the WP.”
