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6 PART 1 PRELIMINARY Short title and commencement

1. This Act is the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act 2019 and comes into operation on a date that the Minister appoints by notification in the Gazette.

General interpretation

2.—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

"Account Restriction Direction" means a direction issued under section 40;

"authorised officer" means a police officer, a public officer or an employee of a statutory board authorised under section 55;

"bot" means a computer program made or altered for the purpose of running automated tasks;

"Competent Authority" means the Competent Authority appointed under section 6;

"computing resource service" means a service that provides the use of any computer hardware or software to enhance the processing capability or storage capacity of a computer;

Examples Examples of computing resource services are cloud computing and data centre services.

"coordinated inauthentic behaviour" means any coordinated activity carried out using 2 or more online accounts, in order to mislead end-users in Singapore of any internet intermediary service as to any matter, but excludes any activity carried out using online accounts—
 * (a) that are controlled by the same person; and
 * (b) none of which is an inauthentic online account or is controlled by a bot;