Right issues being discussed for Singapore's draft laws on fake news: Former US homeland security chief
2019-04-04 10:48:15 source：Straits Times
April 3, 2019
SINGAPORE -- The Republic is discussing the right issues when it comes to laws against fake news but there are no easy answers, said former United States secretary for homeland security Michael Chertoff.
Rather than debate aspects of misinformation that are outright deceptive, such as impersonation, artificial amplification of content and intervention by foreign entities, the harder questions to answer are what constitutes fake news, said Mr Chertoff in his keynote speech on the second day of regional security conference Milipol Asia-Pacific 2019.
"What's fake or false? Sometimes it gets into the area of exaggeration or taking things out of context. Who decides what is false? And what is the remedy - do you shut it down completely or give a warning that the info is not true?"
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