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SINGAPORE – Singapore’s ruling party named Alvin Tan, a former Facebook executive who represented the company in arguing against the government’s controversial fake news law, as a candidate in the upcoming July 10 election.
Tan, 39, is currently head of public policy and economics at professional networking site LinkedIn, the People’s Action Party said in a statement on Thursday. It added he has been a volunteer since 2005.
Tan was previously head of public policy in Southeast Asia for Facebook, which has been at loggerheads with the Singapore government over the online fake news law enacted late last year.
He made a written submission for the company in early 2018 to a committee studying online falsehoods, saying it did “not believe that legislation is the best approach to addressing the issue”.
He also represented Facebook along with its Asia vice president for public policy Simon Milner during a heated public hearing about the law before it was enacted.
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