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SINGAPORE – Three Facebook users, including opposition politician and lawyer Lim Tean, have been issued correction directions by the Government for alleging that the People’s Association (PA) and residents’ committees (RCs) were involved in the organisation of an event that has emerged as Singapore’s largest coronavirus cluster.
The Protection from Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (Pofma) office said in a statement on Wednesday (March 18) that the deputy chairman of PA, Mr Chan Chun Sing, has initiated the latest correction order on posts about the Feb 15 Safra Jurong Chinese New Year function that has so far surfaced 45 cases of confirmed Covid-19 infections here.
All three – Mr Lim, “Henryace Ace” and Mr Sebastian Ying – posted or shared links saying the PA and RCs were responsible for the infections linked to the event.
Mr Lim, who is the People’s Voice party chief, did so on both his pages Lim Tean and Tean Lim.
According to the government fact-checking website Factually, the posts alleging PA or RC involvement in the organisation of the Feb 15 event are “entirely false”.
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