WHEN THE GOVERNMENT SAYS YOU’RE FAKE NEWS
IN THE MIDST of a massive financial corruption scandal in Malaysia that led to the ouster of the country’s prime minister, an independent online news outlet named States Times Review published a story last November claiming that Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was being investigated and that his country’s banks may have played a role in money laundering.
Leaders of Singapore’s central bank were and then asked Facebook to remove a post promoting the story. The social media site declined.
