Singapore legislation
Section 11
of Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act 2019
Section 11
Correction Direction
(1)
A Correction Direction is one issued to a person who communicated the subject statement in Singapore, requiring the person to communicate in Singapore in the specified form and manner, to a specified person or description of persons (if any), and by the specified time, a notice (called in this Part a correction notice) that contains one or both of the following:
a statement, in such terms as may be specified, that the subject statement is false, or that the specified material contains a false statement of fact;
a specified statement of fact, or a reference to a specified location where the specified statement of fact may be found, or both.
(2)
A Correction Direction may require the person to whom it is issued to communicate in Singapore a correction notice in a specified online location.
(3)
A Correction Direction may also require the person to whom it is issued to do one or both of the following:
to communicate in Singapore the correction notice by placing it in the specified proximity to every copy of the following that is communicated by the person in Singapore:
the false statement of fact;
a substantially similar statement;
to publish the correction notice in the specified manner in a specified newspaper or other printed publication of Singapore.
(4)
A person who communicated a false statement of fact in Singapore may be issued a Correction Direction even if the person does not know or has no reason to believe that the statement is false.
(5)
In this section —
“specified” means specified in the Correction Direction; and
a person does not communicate a statement in Singapore merely by doing any act for the purpose of, or that is incidental to, the provision of —
an internet intermediary service;
a telecommunication service;
a service of giving the public access to the internet; or
a computing resource service.