Serious Consequences of Online Falsehoods – The Need for POFMA With the rapid development of information and communication technologies, online falsehoods, such as rumours, deliberate distortions, and untruths, are spreading more quickly and widely, and with greater negative impacts, especially over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. [...] Actions have been taken by the respective government ministries to investigate the cases, to correct the falsehoods spread online, and to clarify the facts to the public. [...] Besides the press releases published by the POFMA Office, full facts of the cases have also been elaborated to the public in detail on the Singapore Government fact- checking website Factually. [...] Readers can read for themselves both the correction of facts and the original post and decide what is the truth. [...] It is impossible for the government to investigate and instruct the POFMA Office to issue Correction Directions to all of them.
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