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POFMA? Nearly 50% Singaporeans worry the government is intentionally misleading them. How to go to GE? No wonder the G needs to spend and spend!

 POFMA?

Nearly 50% Singaporeans worry the government is intentionally misleading them. 

How to go to GE?

No wonder the G needs to spend and spend!


Can the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act also apply to government leaders?

So many Singaporeans in the 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer report worry that government leaders, business leaders and journalists are intentionally misleading them. 


In fact, this is the problem of the world! The Edelman report has the title: A collision of trust, innovation, and politics.

   

Is trusting the government and trusting the political leaders the same thing? How to detect the leaders are using the government as cover to gain political advantage? Such as spending and spending in the coming general election?  Singapore is lucky we have money we can afford to spend. And we think of the government and leaders as one identity.


Oh! No. DPM Heng said the Budget 2024 was not meant to increase Singaporeans’ reliance on the government.  Minister Desmond Lee cautions home buyers about looming economic uncertainties.  Which is which? Worry? Intention? Misleading?   



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