Wake Up, Singapore Got POFMA-ed for Image About COP’s Recommendation

In 2052, we should be travelling around in driverless hover cars and Animal Crossing is no longer just a game, but a thing in real life.

And the POFMA office might still be hard at work trying to dispel wrong information on TikBook, a merged social platform between TikTok and Facebook.

Chances are, Goody Feed won’t be POFMA-ed for the above statements because it’s opinions, not statements put forward as facts.

That, and we are all cats in the office (which decent human being doesn’t like cats?!).

But what if you were to get POFMA-ed in 2022? You’re going to have to tell the whole world that you published fake news; and that’s exactly what happened to Wake Up, Singapore, a Singapore media company.

Wake Up, Singapore Creates Meme About COP’s Recommendation

Unfortunately, not everyone in Singapore is entirely satisfied with the verdict of the Worker’s Party Committee of Privileges hearing.

If you’ve been living under a rock and don’t know what we’re talking about, you can check out our YouTube video about the verdict below:

On 10 February 2022, Wake Up, Singapore uploaded an image (read: meme) of their thoughts regarding the COP hearing’s verdict on its Facebook and Instagram pages.

Wake Up, Singapore pointed out that the liar who started the whole incident was only slapped with a fine, while the two leaders, who did not lie, were referred for criminal proceedings.

In addition, it also accused the authorities of using the issue to distract people in Singapore while raising GST by 2%.

You can view their post in full below:

POFMA’s Response

Given how huge the entire saga was, the authorities have to respond to such assertive statements.

And they did.

Two days later on 12 Feb 2022, Wake Up, Singapore uploaded a post onto its Facebook page.

Gov.sg released an article informing the public about the untruths in Wake Up, Singapore’s Facebook post.

It indicated that there was one false statement of fact within Wake Up, Singapore’s post.

The post had said conveyed to members of the public that “Mr Pritam Singh and Mr Muhamad Faisal Bin Abdul Manap was referred for criminal proceedings, even though there was no finding by the Committee that they lied”.

That is untrue, it asserts, as the committee found that Pritam Singh, Mr Faisal and Ms Sylvia Lim had lied in their evidence to the committee.

Mr Faisal, it added, was not referred to the Public Prosecutor for lying; he was referred for refusing to answer questions posed by the committee.

Facts

The article went on to list the facts of what really happened:

• Mr Singh, as well as Mr Faisal and Ms Lim (to a lower extent), had lied on oath to the committee
• Mr Singh had lied on several key points in an attempt to hid his involvement in Khan’s repeated lies
• He had wanted to save himself
• Mr Faisal refused to answer a question posed by the committee; it was noted that he had refused eight times
• The committee had referred Singh’s conduct to the Public Prosecutor so he has the chance to defend and vindicate himself

You can read the article in full here.

Read Also:

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Feature Image: Facebook (Wake Up, Singapore) / Gov.sg