Singapore Passes `Fake News' Bill Amid Concerns for Free Speech
- Under new law, government gets to decide what’s true or false
- Facebook, Google say they remain concerned about new law
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Singapore’s lawmakers passed a bill to combat "fake news" after two days of debate about who gets to define what’s true and false.
Under the new bill, it will be government ministers who make that call. Singapore’s Parliament passed the bill in a vote of 72 to 9 late Wednesday night, Straits Times reported.