Curbing Deliberate Online Falsehoods - A Step In The Right Direction?

As was aptly summarized in the Green Paper entitled "Deliberate Online Falsehoods: Challenges and Implications" published by the Singapore Ministry of Communications and Information and the Ministry of Law, around the world falsehoods are being deliberately spread online, to attack public institutions and individuals, with the aim of sowing discord amongst racial and religious communities, exploiting fault-lines, undermining public institutions, interfering in elections as well as other democratic processes, and weakening countries. On 5^th January 2018, the Ministry of Law announced that it would ask the Singapore Parliament to appoint a Select Committee to study the problem of deliberate online falsehoods, and to recommend how Singapore should respond.