SINGAPORE — Media portal Gutzy Asia and its social media pages on Facebook and X, formerly known as Twitter, have been designated as Declared Online Locations (DOLs) under the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (Pofma), after its online accounts were issued three Pofma correction directions within six months.
Gutzy Asia and its social media pages on Facebook and X have been designated as Declared Online Locations.SINGAPORE — Media portal Gutzy Asia and its social media pages on Facebook and X, formerly known as Twitter, have been designated as Declared Online Locations under the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act , after its online accounts were issued three Pofma correction directions within six months.
Owners of DOLs cannot derive financial or other material benefit from operating the sites. This means that service providers and digital advertising intermediaries must ensure that paid content are not communicated in Singapore. On Oct 16, 2023, Gutzy Asia reported that a woman who had fallen off a building in Yishun and died was a Filipino migrant domestic worker or a Filipino worker, when she was a Singaporean.
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