Singapore: Adopted Singapore Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Act containing content monitoring regulation

On 4 October 2021, the Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Act is adopted by the Singaporean Parliament. The Act enables the Minister for Home Affairs to request information from online services (social media services, relevant electronic services, internet access services, personal websites, blogs or social media pages) to determine if harmful communications are being pursued with a foreign mandate ("foreign interferences"). In response to claims that certain content is influenced by a foreign actor, the Act enables the Minister to require online services to remove pieces of content or implement corrections through the substitution of the pieces of content with alternative declarations.