Singapore government casts doubts over social media firms in fighting fake news | Marketing Interactive

Facebook’s conduct in its data scandal involving Cambridge Analytica has cast doubt over the Singapore government over whether or not the former can be trusted to cooperate in the fight against online falsehoods.

This was revealed by Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam (pictured) in Parliament yesterday, and saw the minister expressing that Facebook had fallen short in its claimed standards of transparency in handling the incident and user data, a ST report said