Justice Thean determined that the post did not represent the author’s viewpoint.
She wrote,” It was an statement of fact made by the author to help his mind that some questions remained unanswered following the review that SM Teo( ought not to have ) helmed due to the issue of conflicts of interest.”
The judge concluded that an objective, reasonable reader may close Mr. Teo had no other response beyond a mysterious quote after reviewing the entire article.
The SLA renovated both houses for more than S$ 1 million because the officials were residents, according to the next subject statement.
The plain information, including over S$ 1 million of taxpayer funds spent on reconstruction works, are surprising, according to Jom’s writing.
An objective and fair segment of the audience, according to Justice Thean, had read the article as a whole rather than just the” plain facts”; Specifically, the amount of money spent on the construction, how big the houses were, and the 26 Ridout Road rental rate.
She ruled that despite a small rental return, the article had claimed that SLA had spent more than Sulfur$ 1 million in taxpayer funds to restore the large components due to conflicts of interest.
The second topic speech in question involved Jom, who claimed that the government had ordered Instagram to geo-block a article by former Reform Party chairman and wanted attorney Charles Yeo.
” Instagram has seemingly geo-blocked( only in Singapore) a post by Charles Yeo ,” according to Jom’s writing. It continued by saying that the parent company of the social media platform, Meta,” sometimes works hand-in-glove with autocratic governments in the region ,” but later added that” there is no evidence that Meta has any similar arrangement with Singapore’s ruling Peoples Action Party ( PAP ).”
In her opinion, the article establishes a situation that the government ordered Instagram to geo-block Charles Yeo’s article, according to Justice Thean.
The entire trade of the content leads to the claim that the Singapore government requested Instagram to geo-block the Charles Yeo article in Singapore, even though this is not spelled out actually. “”