{"id":925819,"date":"2025-04-28T08:27:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T02:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=925819"},"modified":"2025-04-28T08:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T03:01:07","slug":"amid-elections-campaign-singapore-blocks-voter-influencing-facebook-posts-by-foreigners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/28\/amid-elections-campaign-singapore-blocks-voter-influencing-facebook-posts-by-foreigners\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid elections campaign, Singapore blocks voter-influencing Facebook posts by foreigners"},"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 &#8212; 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&#8217;s 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 &#8212; one a former Singaporean detainee-turned-Australian linked to the Islamic State and two Malaysian politicians. The posts criticised, among others, the Singapore government&#8217;s 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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925819","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=925819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}