Salil Tripathi

Debating Singapore’s ‘Fake News’ Law

Ambassador Mirpuri: Determining what is or is not a fact is defined by well-established jurisprudence. Salil Tripathi: Past Singaporean jurisprudence of some libel cases involving critical opinions about Singapore in the international media suggests a less rosy conclusion.

Singapore: Laboratory of Digital Censorship

The new law empowers any government minister to demand corrections from anyone who has generated content that the minister believes is fake and to dictate the words and phrases of that correction; the government can also ask for the content to be taken down, and require Internet service providers or platforms to prevent access to it.

Bangladesh’s Authoritarian Turn

Hoodwinking international donor countries and suppressing internal dissent, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina hopes to be re-elected virtually unopposed. Noisy students, witnesses taking photographs, and critical journalists have been warned.