In the strangest twist to this by-election season yet, Singapore Press Holdings-owned online portal STOMP briefly presented a fake news piece as the real deal.
The context? A popular photo making the rounds on Facebook showing a woman who had fainted at the North Vista Secondary School nomination centre on Wednesday was dressed up to become a parody piece by New Nation, Singapore's version of The Onion, a U.S. website featuring satirical articles on international, national and local news.
STOMP -- rather liberally -- took from the original and obviously fake New Nation article and published their piece under a separate headline titled "Woman who 'fainted' at nomination centre claims she did it to 'promote political unity'". (Note: The link is broken because it has been taken down.) Full story
