They were among 79 people asked to speak in parliament over the eight days set for the hearing. "We do not believe that legislation is the best approach to addressing the issue," Alvin Tan, Facebook's head of public policy for Southeast Asia, said in a written submission. "Singapore already has a variety of existing laws and regulations which address hate speech, defamation and the spreading of false news." "No single company, governmental or non-governmental actor, should be the arbiter of truth," Kathleen Reen, Twitter's director of Public Policy for Asia Pacific, said. Many of the examples of fake news, cited in a Singapore government paper on deliberate online falsehoods published in January, came from abroad.

Source: bd News24 March 22, 2018 06:45 UTC