{"id":11498,"date":"2019-11-25T18:50:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T09:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/25\/singapore-fake-news-law-facebook-brad-bowyer"},"modified":"2019-11-25T18:50:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T09:50:59","slug":"singapore-invokes-fake-news-law-for-first-time-over-facebook-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11498","title":{"rendered":"Singapore invokes &#8216;fake news&#8217; law for first time over Facebook post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK-born politician told to edit post after alleging government influenced state investors<\/p>\n<p>A politician in Singapore has corrected a Facebook post that questioned the independence of state investment firms after a government request, in the first use of the country\u2019s \u201cfake news\u201d law.<\/p>\n<p>Brad Bowyer used \u201cfalse and misleading\u201d statements alleging that the government had influenced decisions made by the state investors Temasek Holdings and GIC, according to a statement on the official government factchecking website.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/25\/singapore-fake-news-law-facebook-brad-bowyer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK-born politician told to edit post after alleging government influenced state investorsA politician in Singapore has corrected a Facebook post that questioned the independence of state investment firms after a government request, in the first use of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":723,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,458,236,687,86,238,783,235,824,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-censorship","category-digital-media","category-facebook","category-law","category-media","category-singapore","category-social-media","category-social-networking","category-technology","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/723"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11499,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11498\/revisions\/11499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}