Check the author’s If the author is anonymous and the ownership qualifications and publication of the site is unclear or unknown, then it could history to determine the be suspicious. [...] The usage of the term for the website appears to be intended to evoke familiarity and knowledge of the Singapore culture. [...] Figure 17: Pictorial assets used by the website Figure 16: The IP address was traced back to Germany Figure 18: The names of the images used by the website 24 Based on the current information available through open-source tools, we were unable to conclusively identify the owners Alamak.io. [...] Figure 20: A screenshot of one of the five articles were observed to be written and attributed to an author, allegedly the Russian Ambassador to Singapore 26 There is corroboration that these articles were written by the Russian Ambassador to Singapore, as they were shared by the official Twitter (X.com) accounts of the Russian Embassy in the Republic of Singapore and the Russian Mission to ASEAN,. [...] Under Section 36, “a technical assistance direction may require a person to whom the direction is given to do one or more of the following within the time specified in the direction, in relation to all or any of the person’s relevant activities: (a) to provide information about whether any account maintained by the person for a customer is that for a foreigner; (b) to provide technical information.
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Table of Contents
- INAUTHENTIC LOCAL LIFESTYLE AND NEWS WEBSITES AND THE CHALLENGE FOR MEDIA LITERACY 1
- INAUTHENTIC LOCAL LIFESTYLE AND NEWS WEBSITES AND THE CHALLENGE FOR MEDIA LITERACY 2
- Executive Summary 4
- 1. Background 6
- 2. Information Manipulation 7
- AI-generated news and information websites 7
- Disinformation can be propagated through benign- looking news websites 8
- Threat actors can impersonate respected news websites and amplify them through fake social media accounts 9
- Threat actors include domestic extremists from opposite ends of the political and ideological spectrum 12
- 3. The challenge that information manipulation poses to media literacy 14
- 4. Analysis of websites presenting as local Singapore news sites 17
- Alamak.io 18
- 5. Application to Singapore 28
- Laws that can be applied 29
- The need for vigilance 31
- About the Authors 32
- About the Centre of Excellence for National Security CENS 33