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Facebook Vs Singapore Minister: A Fight You Need To Remember
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Facebook Vs Singapore Minister: A Fight You Need To Remember

Facebook’s Vice President of Public Policy for Asia-Pacific, Simon Milner had to appear before a Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods in Singapore where he was questioned by the Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam for almost three hours. Mr. Milner had to give explanations to Mr. Shanmugam about the allegations that Cambridge Analytica unfairly used Facebook’s data and why Facebook users were not informed about the data breach earlier. He also had to answer questions about how Facebook will reposition itself after the recent controversy surrounding them since the events happened in 2016 during the US Presidential Elections. The rest of the article is a script of the questioning between Mr. Shanmugam and Mr. Milner, which at times got rather h...