nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20211116-201823-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 211116s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20211116-201823-0 doi eng 342 23 Schuldt, Lasse Author aut In Singapore’s war on fake news, the Constitution is not an obstacle Schuldt, Lasse Verfassungsblog 2021-11-16 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Singapore’s highest court has decided the first case under the city state’s controversial Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act. The whopping 154-page judgment finds key elements of the Act constitutional and establishes a test to determine the lawfulness of governmental correction notices. It also illustrates how the government’s insistence on factual accuracy pushes the courts to almost absurdly meticulous assessments, while being barred from asking the most significant questions. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 Disinformation Fake News Singapore Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/fake-news-obstacle/ raw object