Singapore Blocks Access to Fake News Websites on Hostile Threat

Singapore ordered Internet service providers to block six foreign-linked, fake websites posing as local news sites as they could be used to carry out disinformation activities.

The websites masqueraded as Singapore domains, carrying local news features and text, and were linked to networks used for misinformation, the Infocomm Media Development Authority and Ministry of Home Affairs said in a statement Thursday.

“It is a common tactic for malicious foreign actors to build seemingly credible websites to attract a local following, and subsequently use these inauthentic websites to mount” hostile information campaigns, according to the statement. Most of the websites became ...