Photo Image from The Straits Times/ANN SINGAPORE, April 17 (dpa): Singapore s Health Ministry has invoked a fake news law to force an opposition party to publish corrections to Facebook posts implying coronavirus vaccinations can lead to stroke or death.
The ministry said earlier this week that it instructed the government office responsible for implementing the 2019 Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act to issue correction directions to the Singapore People s Party (SPP) and leader Goh Meng Seng.
The order covered Goh s and the SPP s posts implying that Covid-19 vaccination had caused or substantially contributed to a case of stroke and the separate death of an 81-year-old.
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81-year-old man died of heart disease, not COVID-19 vaccination complications: MOH
File photo of a healthcare worker preparing a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Singapore. (File photo: Jeremy Long)
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SINGAPORE: The cause of an 81-year-old man’s death was ischaemic heart disease and not because of COVID-19 vaccination complications, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Thursday (Apr 15).
The Health Sciences Authority’s (HSA) Forensic Medicine Division reported that post-mortem, there was “no evidence of acute anaphylaxis or an allergic reaction at the injection site of the COVID-19 vaccine”, the Health Ministry added in a press release.
April 15, 2021
The Pofma correction orders were directed at the Facebook pages of Goh Meng Seng People s Power Party and Goh Meng Seng (Satu Singapura) as well as at the Singapore Uncensored website.
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SINGAPORE - The Republic s fake news law was invoked after unsubstantiated claims about adverse reactions to Covid-19 vaccines were posted on Facebook and published online by a website.
In a statement on Thursday (April 15), the Ministry of Health (MOH) said the Health Minister had instructed the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (Pofma) Office to issue the correction directions.
They were directed at the Facebook pages of Goh Meng Seng People s Power Party and Goh Meng Seng (Satu Singapura), as well as at the Singapore Uncensored website.
Singapore orders corrections to Facebook posts on vaccine risks
15 Apr 2021 - 12:38
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Singapore’s Ministry of Health has issued orders requiring correction to several Facebook posts and an article over what the government says are false or unsubstantiated claims about side effects from Covid-19 vaccines.
The directives were issued to opposition politician Goh Meng Seng and alternative news site Singapore Uncensored for alleging that vaccine side effects had caused or contributed to a doctor’s stroke and the death of an 81-year-old man. These allegations are false. As of 14 April 2021, there is no credible evidence for an increased risk of heart attack or stroke with the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Inc COVID-19 vaccines which are currently approved and offered in Singapore” the ministry said in a statement.
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