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Singapore: MCI order designating The Online Citizen Asia's website and social media pages as declared online locations under the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act

Progress

Current status
revoked
21 Jul 2025 revoked
22 Jul 2023 in force
21 Jul 2023 adopted

Scope

Implementers
Singapore
Policy Area
Content moderation
Policy Instrument
Content moderation regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
online advertising provider
platform intermediary: user-generated content
other service provider
Government Branch
executive
Government Body
other regulatory body
Implementation Level
national

Timeline of events

21 Jul 2025
revoked

Terminated MCI order designating The Online Citizen Asia’s website and social media pages as declared online locations under the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act

On 21 July 2025, the Singapore Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI)’s order declaring The Online Citizen Asia’s (TOCA) website, Facebook page, Twitter account page, and LinkedIn page as "declared online locations" (DOLs) under the Protec…

Event type order
Action type termination
Government branch executive
Government body other regulatory body
22 Jul 2023
in force

Implemented MCI order designating The Online Citizen Asia’s website and social media pages as declared online locations under the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act

On 22 July 2023, the Singapore Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI)’s order declaring The Online Citizen Asia’s (TOCA) website, Facebook page, Twitter account page, and LinkedIn page as "declared online locations" (DOLs) under the Prote…

Event type order
Action type implementation
Government branch executive
Government body other regulatory body
21 Jul 2023
adopted

Adopted MCI order designating The Online Citizen Asia’s website and social media pages as declared online locations under the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act

On 21 July 2023, the Singapore Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI) declared The Online Citizen Asia’s (TOCA) website, Facebook page, Twitter account page, and LinkedIn page as "declared online locations" (DOLs) under the Protection from…

Event type order
Action type adoption
Government branch executive
Government body other regulatory body