MP for Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC Zainudin Nordin, told parliament that the government needs to explain its policies better and mount "robust challenges" to the untruths spread online.
He had explained that there is a certain segment of society that is "loud, more demanding and less willing to accommodate changes" he also said that this group of people are often xenophobic and they like to "stoke distrust and hatred".
He suggested that the best way to combat these untruths is for the government to put more effort into explaining its policies. This way, there would be no doubt for netizens to spin into "bizarre allegations".
Mr Zainudin, who last year was put in the spotlight over insensitive comments he had made on facebook about gang rape being "democracy in action", believes that it is time for the government to put more effort into explaining itself to the people.
He was concerned that many people, even well- educated people are reading the untruthful and confusing articles online and believing what they read.