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TikTok can be asked to tag misleading information with notices, as well as restrict access to content from specific users. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SINGAPORE —Short video-sharing app TikTok will now have additional obligations to help combat fake news, including preventing abuse by bots and ensuring online transparency for political advertising under Singapore’s fake news law.

It said: “As part of this regular review, TikTok has been gazetted as a prescribed Internet intermediary with effect from March 7, 2023 and the Pofma Office has engaged TikTok on these additional obligations.” As an Internet intermediary, TikTok can be asked to tag misleading information with notices, as well as restrict access to content from specific users to Singaporeans.

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