GE2020: SDP's Paul Tambyah responds to Pofma directions, says he never said there was an unilateral action by MOM
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Dr Paul Tambyah — chairman of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) — has responded to the recent correctional directions issued to several publications with regard to excerpts they carried on his statements. Yesterday (July 5), the alternate authoriGE2020: SDP's Paul Tambyah responds to Pofma directions, says he never said there was an unilateral action by MOM
Dr Paul Tambyah — chairman of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) — has responded to the recent correctional directions issued to several publications with regard to excerpts they carried on his statements. Yesterday (July 5), the alternate authority for the Minister for Manpower (MOM) instructed the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (Pofma) office to issue the correctional directions to the National University Of Singapore Society (NUSS), CNA, The Online Citizen Asia (TOC) and New Naratif. It stated that the platforms had carried false statements made by Dr Tambyah regarding a circular issued by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) on the testing of migrant workers for Covid-19. At a Bukit Panjang walkabout today, Dr Tambyah told reporters: "In the first place, as I've predicted, those were statements I never made. I never said there was an unilateral action by MOM. Read more