With the ongoing global outbreak of COVID-19, governments worldwide race against time to contain not only the spread of the pathogen, but also the flurry of fake news, with fears that online misinformation, if left unchecked, could be more infectious than the disease itself.
One of the weapons in the Singapore government's arsenal to contain the infectiousness of fake news, is the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (“POFMA”), colloquially known as Singapore’s “fake news law”.
