High Court Justice Valerie Thean upholds the correction directions.
SINGAPORE: In July, the online magazine Jom was issued correction directions under the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act regarding three blurbs in its weekly digest, two of which concerned the Ridout Road issue and one was about an Instagram post by former Reform Party chair Charles Yeo. The correction directions were called for by Second Minister for Law Edwin Tong and Minister for Communications and Information Josephine Teo.
Mr Tong and Ms Teo pointed out that the Jom article failed to say that Mr Shanmugam had recused himself, meaning there could be no potential or actual conflict of interest. Justice Thean said, “The flow of the text within the article and its conclusion is an assertion that conflicts of interest caused SLA to spend more than $1m in taxpayer money to renovate the large properties despite the low rental return.”
The site seemed to suggest that an Instagram post from Mr Yeo had been geo-blocked by the Government. The Government denied that, saying that no directions had been issued to Instagram for such a geo-block.
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