SINGAPORE — The operator of Gutzy Asia will from Wednesday (June 12) be barred from receiving any material benefits, including financial ones, from the operation of the alternative news website and its social media pages.
SINGAPORE — The operator of Gutzy Asia will from Wednesday be barred from receiving any material benefits, including financial ones, from the operation of the alternative news website and its social media pages.Three Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act correction directions have been issued to Gutzy Asia, including one for communicating false statements of fact concerning the assistance rendered to a couple who live in West Coast.
Gutzy Asia, as well as its Facebook and X pages, were designated as DOLs on Tuesday for communicating"multiple falsehoods". The declaration will be in effect for two years, until June 11, 2026, said the Ministry for Communications and Information . Gutzy Asia previously published content as The Online Citizen Asia. The website was launched last year after The Online Citizen Asia's website and its Facebook, LinkedIn and X pages were designated as DOLs.The first was issued in October 2023 after it published a falsehood about a woman who had fallen to her death from a building in Yishun.
Service providers and digital advertising bodies must also take reasonable steps to ensure that paid content that they include on DOLs is not communicated in Singapore.
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