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SINGAPORE – The Government has called out The Washington Post for “perpetuating false allegations” after the American newspaper ran only parts of a letter from Singapore’s ambassador to the United States.
Mr Ashok Kumar Mirpuri had responded to a Dec 2 article in the online edition of the Post about Facebook complying with the Government’s directive to issue a correction under the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (Pofma) last month.
The article had pointed out that Pofma could have a “chilling effect on online free expression” and “open the door to broad government censorship”, points which Mr Mirpuri rebutted.
On Monday (Dec 16) evening, the Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI) made public a letter that Mr Bernard Toh, director of the ministry’s information policy division, had written to Washington Post publisher Fred Ryan.
In the letter, Mr Toh noted that the Post had declined to publish Mr Mirpuri’s response on the grounds that it only ran letters on articles that appeared in the print edition of its paper. The Government was then directed to the article’s author, Ms Cat Zakrzewski.
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