Laws against lies: Asian governments are trying to curb fake news

His government has pushed through several laws that allow it to monitor and curb online dissent. Australia’s parliament, meanwhile, adopted a harsh new law on social media this week in response to the recent mass shooting in New Zealand, which was live-streamed on Facebook and which users tried to share more than a million times. Critics accuse the government, which faces an election next month, of attempting to capitalise on public horror at the atrocity in New Zealand.

Source: www.economist.com