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Social media is NOT a primary cause of polarisation. A common, and ostensibly common sense, assumption about the era we are living through is that social media is a primary cause of polarisation. … Most of the academic work in this area points to the complexity of that link, and resists a clear causal connection. Indeed, for... 

Foreigners, even human rights activists from neighbouring countries used to tell me that Singapore is a very successful, rich and democratic country. Many admire the PAP government and even wish that their governments are as efficient and intolerant as ours. At general election rallies in 2013 in Malaysia, I heard several DAP... 

ST, 15 Mar 2019: “Personal information of over 800,000 blood donors was accessible online for 2 months: HSA“. Of course HSA senior management executives are not accountable for the data breach.  Its vendor, Secur Solutions Group Pte Ltd (SSG), will bear 100% responsibility. But with almost no online information about SSG,...