Singapore’s media dysfunctions: who is to blame?
Opening remarks at a panel discussion on Singapore media, organised by FOSG (Future of Singapore). The video of the event can be viewed here. If you have read some of my pieces you will know…
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Disinformation: a debate that needs to be better informed
Edited text of a talk at the Columbia Journalism School’s “Disinformation and Elections” conference, New York, 3 October 2019. As a student in this room exactly 30 years ago, one of the counterintuitive lessons I…
Battling disinformation is about trust as much as truth. That’s why the Online Falsehoods Bill needs to be amended.
By CHERIAN GEORGE April 8, 2019 Since the tabling of the proposed online falsehoods legislation a week ago, my criticisms of the Bill have been widely quoted in mainstream and social media. This isn’t because…
Online Falsehoods Bill: Language of the Law matters
By CHERIAN GEORGE April 6, 2019 For a complete list of my writings on this topic, please visit my home page. It is good to see the government engaging citizens regarding our doubts about the…
How would the Online Falsehoods Act affect journalism? This test case could give an answer.
By CHERIAN GEORGE April 3, 2019 In selling its new Online Falsehoods Bill, the government says it needs new powers to act against disinformation that could sow division and even incite violence among Singapore’s ethnic…
Free speech: a selfish and irresponsible right?
By CHERIAN GEORGE July 5, 2015 Singapore Advocacy Awards Lecture, 4 July 2015. Tweet
Before breakfast, how the regulators made a meal of Sintercom
By CHERIAN GEORGE December 20th, 2013 The closure of Breakfast Network brings to mind the death of Sintercom 12 years ago. Sintercom, a collective started by Stanford student Tan Chong Kee, was the Singapore’s first…
Online freedom: time to revise the Singapore report card
For all the thunderclouds and occasional lightning strikes that bloggers faced in Singapore, we at least used to be able to point to one, clear silver lining: Not one political site had been banned in…
Yawning Bread in contempt again? Why blogger Alex Au deserves a break
by CHERIAN GEORGE November 26th, 2013 Alex Au is once again facing the threat of contempt of court charges over his Yawning Bread blog. The High Court will today hear the Attorney-General’s Chambers case for…
Talk at The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Hong Kong
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