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
Citation
CHAN, David, "Let’s get the psychology of debate right" (2018). Research Collection School of Social Sciences. Paper 3389.
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3389
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3389
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