Singapore questions social media giants over ‘online falsehoods’

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A Singapore parliamentary committee on Thursday spent hours questioning representatives from social media and tech companies, including Facebook, Twitter, and Google, over their policies and role in managing “deliberate online falsehoods”.

Facebook’s Asia-Pacific vice-president of public policy Simon Milner, specifically, faced what he himself described as a “tough Q&A” with Singapore’s Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam.