The information will enable Law and Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam to identify the people responsible for possible legal action.
Law and Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam has applied for court orders against TikTok to compel the social media giant to disclose information about three users who had posted false allegations of him having an extramarital affair.
The user information will enable him to identify the potential parties he can take direct legal action against over the false statements, Mr Shanmugam said in papers filed with the State Courts.
On Aug 15, Mr Shanmugam posted on his Facebook page that an old post which made “false, baseless allegations” that he had an affair with an MP was being recirculated.
He wrote that he had asked his lawyers to look into it and was considering legal options.
Between Aug 13 and Aug 17, videos containing allegations of the affair were uploaded on three TikTok accounts. The usernames of the accounts were “trusted.selller”, “thaddeusthomas81” and “tharakhussin”.
Mr Shanmugam’s then lawyers from Allen & Gledhill sent letters to TikTok asking for immediate action to disable end-user access to the posts as they were false and constituted “serious libel”.
In relation to the account “trusted.seller”, the lawyers also asked TikTok to provide “basic subscriber information” that would lead to identification of the user, strictly for the purpose of serving legal process on the person.
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