FEATURED POST

Photographing the Community on Tennessee’s Death Row

Image
From 2010 to 2015 I was incarcerated in Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, the Tennessee prison that houses death row for the men’s system. On one side of a gate, 250 of us lived in a “support staff” unit working maintenance, landscaping, kitchen service or whatever else kept the facility operational. On the other side of the gate were maximum-security prisoners and those in protective custody, and a unit just for the condemned.

Singapore orders Meta to alert users to false statements on death penalty

SINGAPORE: Singapore’s Home Ministry (MHA) has instructed Meta Platforms Inc be issued Targeted Correction Directions (TCDs) following the reposting of false statements on its platforms regarding the scheduling of executions and the prosecution of drug trafficking charges in the country.

The ministry said it has instructed Office of the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA) to issue the TCDs, which require Meta to alert users who have seen the repeat posts that they contain false statements.

“The TCDs also require users be provided with a link to the government’s clarification at https://www.gov.sg/article/factually051024,” it said in a statement Tuesday.

The ministry added that the clarification outlines the falsehoods and facts for the public to review, without requiring the original posts to be removed.

“Readers can view both the original posts and the facts, and decide for themselves what the truth is,” it said.

The TCDs relate to 10 Facebook and 30 Instagram posts made by individuals on Oct 23 and 24, which re-shared false statements made by the Transformative Justice Collective (TJC), a group advocating for the abolition of the death penalty in Singapore.

The original post by TJC was issued a Correction Direction on Oct 5, which required the group to insert a correction notice on the posts, stating that they contained false statements.

The ministry said TJC complied with the Correction Direction by Oct 6.

“By reposting the TJC posts on Oct 23 and 24, these individuals chose to communicate falsehoods that they knew, or should have known, were false,” the ministry said.

Source: thesun.my, Staff, November 5, 2024

_____________________________________________________________________








"One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed,
but by the punishments that the good have inflicted."

— Oscar Wilde



Most Viewed (Last 7 Days)

Photographing the Community on Tennessee’s Death Row

Georgia | Death row inmate’s last cigarette request 'denied over health concerns'

South Carolina executes Richard Moore

US Supreme Court declines to halt South Carolina inmate’s upcoming execution

Iran executes Jewish man for fatal stabbing

Prisoners plead for air conditioning in lawsuit against Florida corrections department

Iran Executes Finger Amputation Sentences on Two Brothers Convicted of Theft

Human Rights Crisis in Iran: Amputations and Executions Surge Amid International Alarm

Delayed Execution: The Syrian Regime Detains Minors in Prisons to Execute Them Upon Reaching 18

Iran | At Least 166 Executions in October; Highest Monthly Execution Toll in Two Decades