The government of Singapore labeled this coverage as fake news and blocked access to his Facebook pages under the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA).
[2] On 6 February 2015, two editors of TRS, Ai Takagi and Robin Yang Kai Heng, were arrested under Singapore's Sedition Act.
[3][4] Invoking POFMA, the government of Singapore requested Facebook mark a States Times Review post with a "correction notice" in November 2019.
[16] The Singapore High Commission in Malaysia also released a statement to the Malaysian government and people that "categorically stated that (the) article is fake news and clearly libellous.
He initially refused, criticizing the "false charges of 'fake news' and 'criminal defamation' laid by the Singapore dictatorship", but eventually shut down the States Times Review's Facebook page "of his own volition".