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TOC\u2019s operator has had a history of communicating falsehoods to readers in Singapore through these new sites.<\/p>\n
In March, both locations were issued two POFMA correction directions each for falsehoods.<\/p>\n
On Mar 23, TOC was issued one after it published an article about the re-appointment<\/a> of Attorney-General Lucien Wong. The article alleged that there was no information that Mr Wong had recused himself from acting on matters relating to the <\/span>acquisition of 38 Oxley Road<\/a>, the home of Singapore’s first prime minister Lee Kuan Yew.<\/span><\/p>\n TOC also alleged that during a parliamentary debate that Workers\u2019 Party chair Sylvia Lim was not allowed to raise any follow-up questions on the attorney-general’s re-appointment process.<\/span><\/p>\n There was also a false suggestion that an attorney-general must retire at 60. Mr Wong is 72 years old.<\/span><\/p>\n The other POFMA correction direction was issued after TOC published an article with false claims on a reply<\/a> by the Coordinating Minister for National Security and Minister for Home Affairs K Shanmugam to parliamentary questions on Singaporeans allegedly serving in the Israeli Defense Forces.<\/p>\n TOC alleged that Mr Shanmugam deliberately chose to give incomplete answers and that the Singapore government had information to act on, including identifying information of the two Singaporeans, among other things.<\/p>\n In its statement on Tuesday, the ministry said: “Given TOC\u2019s persistent communication of falsehoods on these alternate sites, and its attempts to circumvent the DOL requirements imposed on its platforms, the Minister for Digital Development and Information has found it necessary to declare both the domain names of TOC\u2019s alternate website and Heidoh\u2019s website as DOLs.”<\/p>\n It added: “This ensures that Singaporeans visiting these sites are alerted to their record of communicating falsehoods, and prevents TOC\u2019s operator from continuing to profit from the harmful act of spreading online falsehoods in Singapore.”\u00a0<\/p>\n The conditions and requirements of the new DOLs remain the same as the existing declaration for TOC\u2019s online locations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n HISTORY OF COMMUNICATING FALSEHOODS TOC\u2019s operator has had a history of communicating falsehoods to readers in Singapore through these new sites. In March, both locations…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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