SINGAPORE—Authorities in this city-state directed Facebook Inc. on Friday to publish a correction to a post by a user on the social-media website, marking the first test for the tech giant since Singapore passed a sweeping law this year to combat what it sees as online falsehoods and fake news. The government said it had issued a “targeted correction direction” to Facebook in connection with a post containing allegations that authorities had made a wrongful arrest. The information was incorrect and no such arrest had been...

Source: Wall Street Journal November 29, 2019 14:37 UTC