The Facebook pages of the Singapore States Times and its owner Alex Tan Zhi Xiang were blocked by censors in Singapore under the country’s new “anti-fake news” law, passed in October 2019, over what the government said was false information about the COVID-19 “virus situation”. Authorities said the news outlet “repeatedly communicated numerous falsehoods” and refused to carry corrections.
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