{"id":925806,"date":"2025-04-28T08:17:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T02:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=925806"},"modified":"2025-04-28T08:21:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T02:51:23","slug":"singapore-blocks-voter-influencing-facebook-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/28\/singapore-blocks-voter-influencing-facebook-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore blocks voter-influencing Facebook posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Singapore, which goes to the polls next week, have directed Meta to disable user access to several Facebook posts intended to influence voters by foreigners \u2014 one a former Singaporean detainee-turned-Australian linked to the Islamic State and two Malaysian politicians. <\/p>\n<p>The posts criticised, among others, the Singapore government\u2019s handling of sensitive religious issues and urged Singaporeans to vote along religious lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Singapore, which goes to the polls next week, have directed Meta to disable user access to several Facebook posts intended to influence voters by foreigners \u2014 one a former Singaporean detainee-turned-Australian linked to the Islamic State and two Malaysian politicians. The posts criticised, among others, the Singapore government\u2019s handling of sensitive religious issues and urged Singaporeans to vote along religious lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}