{"id":38568,"date":"2019-04-03T07:24:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T07:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38568"},"modified":"2019-04-03T07:24:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T07:24:40","slug":"singapores-fake-news-bill-is-bad-news-for-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38568","title":{"rendered":"Singapore&#8217;s &#8216;fake news&#8217; bill is bad news for Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/mark-zuckerberg-the-internet-needs-new-rules-lets-start-in-these-four-areas\/2019\/03\/29\/9e6f0504-521a-11e9-a3f7-78b7525a8d5f_story.html?noredirect=on&#038;utm_term=.c977d38255c6\" target=\"_blank\">said he welcomed<\/a> more regulation of big tech, but he probably didn&#8217;t mean this. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">A new bill in Singapore &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.gov.sg\/docs\/default-source\/default-document-library\/protection-from-online-falsehoods-and-manipulation-bill10-2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">which had its first reading Monday<\/a> &#8212; would give the government sweeping new powers to crack down on so-called &#8220;fake news&#8221; and hit Facebook and other social media companies with big fines if they don&#8217;t comply with censorship orders. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Under the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Bill, it will be illegal to spread &#8220;false statements of fact&#8221; in Singapore, where that information is &#8220;prejudicial&#8221; to Singapore&#8217;s security, public safety, &#8220;public tranquility,&#8221; or to the &#8220;friendly relations of Singapore with other countries,&#8221; among numerous other topics. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he welcomed more regulation of big tech, but he probably didn&#8217;t mean this. A new bill in Singapore &#8212; which had its first reading Monday &#8212; would give the government sweeping new powers to crack down on so-called &#8220;fake news&#8221; and hit Facebook and other social media companies with big&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}