So, Singapore bureaucrats decide what is fake and what is the ultimate truth.<p>What is facebook going to do after it bends to multiple state actors whose ultimate truth would contradict each other? Each country would have it's own corrective label like some western media do?
I believe this is the post: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SingaporeHerald/posts/2400459390172238" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/SingaporeHerald/posts/2400459390172...</a><p>For me it isn't showing any notice, but I'm not based in Singapore.
A clear example of how speech on Facebook has everything to do with power and money and nothing to do with the principled defending of speech because (as Zuck said) “The ability to speak freely has been central in the fight for democracy worldwide".<p>Facebook might have actually had its hands tied here, but the point is that content on Facebook is subject to the influence of power and money, <i>not</i> the influence of principles.<p>At least the notice is "X says Y is false" rather than "Y is false".
What is this secret channel governments use to reach Facebook? And why only some governments can do it? Germans have won dozens of court cases against Facebook, for example in election meddling, while in smaller countries there simply is no legal entity called "Facebook" you could sue in local courts. I just wish Germans would win one case in European Union election meddling, then we would have EU-wide legal precedence.
Discussion about Singapore making the request: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21661958" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21661958</a>