SINGAPORE, July 26 — More people here encountered harmful online content in 2024 as compared to last year, but the majority of them ignored it, a government survey showed. The...
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Bukit Aman: Over RM2m fixed deposit funds transferred to 11 accounts in Perak before bank clerk found dead; investigations ongoing despite death of suspectAn annual online safety poll by Singapore’s Ministry of Digital Development and Information has found that 74 per cent of respondents in Singapore encountered harmful content in 2024, up from 65 per cent in 2023.
Under the code, these platforms must put in place measures to minimise users’ exposure to harmful content, including sexual and violent content, content relating to suicide and self-harm, and cyberbullying.About a third of the respondents blocked the offending account or user, while only a quarter reported the content to the platform.The poll also found that:
In fourth place was YouTube, with 37 per cent of respondents saying that they encountered harmful content there. X and HardwareZone ranked fifth and sixth, with 16 per cent and 6 per cent of respondents encountering such content on each respective platform. Carol Soon, principal research fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies and vice-chair of IMDA’s Media Literacy Council, said that “perpetrators now have increasingly easy-to-use photo and video editing apps and generative AI tools to create offensive, exploitative and deceptive content like fake nudes and deepfake pornography”.
On users’ “apathy” towards reporting harmful content, Dr Soon said that this finding was concerning and that public education is required to help them understand how harmful content can hurt both the individual and the community.
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