The Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Bill ("Bill") (available here) was read for the first time in Parliament on 1 April 2019, following the submission to Parliament of the report (available here) by the Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods – Causes, Consequences and Countermeasures on 19 September 2018, which made 22 recommendations to deal with fake news threats in Singapore.

If you would like information on this or any other area of law, you may wish to contact the partner at WongPartnership that you normally deal with or any of the following partner(s):

LAM Chung Nian
Head – Intellectual Property,Technology and Media,
Telecommunications and Data Protection Practices
d +65 6416 8271
e chungnian.lam@wongpartnership.com
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Kylie PEH
Partner – Intellectual Property, Technology and Media, Telecommunications and Data Protection Practices
d +65 6416 8259
e kylie.peh@wongpartnership.com
Click here to see Kylie’s CV.