Publication Type

News Article

Version

submittedVersion

Publication Date

4-2018

Abstract

In the last few weeks, manySingaporeans have been exercised over the lengthy debate that ensued between anacademic and a government minister during a parliamentary committee hearing. Singaporean historian Thum Ping Tjinhad made a written submission to the Select Committee on Deliberate OnlineFalsehoods in which he asserted that the biggest purveyor of fake news inSingapore was the Government, in particular the late founding prime ministerLee Kuan Yew. When he appeared before it to flesh out hissubmission, he was questioned for over six hours by Home Affairs and LawMinister K. Shanmugam, a member of the committee, over his interpretation ofhistorical events such as the 1963 Operation Coldstore exercise.

Keywords

Public debate, fake news, academics, government, Singapore

Discipline

Asian Studies | Psychology | Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration

Research Areas

Psychology

Publication

Straits Times

First Page

A40

Last Page

A40

ISSN

1692-9344

Publisher

Singapore Press holdings

Additional URL

https://www.smu.edu.sg/sites/default/files/smu/news_room/smu_in_the_news/2018/Apr2018/Apr30/Let%27s%20get%20the%20psychology%20of%20debate%20right_28_Apr_18.pdf

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