Singapore has recognized the real danger of disinformation

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A man looks at his smartphone along Marina Bay amid the COVID-19 outbreak: Singapore's "fake news" law allows the government to order online falsehoods to be taken down. © Reuters

Ben Chester Cheong is a law lecturer at the Singapore University of Social Sciences and a lawyer with the financial services practice of RHTLaw Asia.

The internet, now with a turbocharge from generative artificial intelligence, has made disinformation and misinformation into serious threats to every society.

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