A hoax image of a statement supposedly from the Prime Minister's Office prompted
CNN and CCTV to issue erroneous reports about Mr Lee Kuan Yew.
SINGAPORE: The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said on Wednesday evening (Mar 18) that it is lodging a police report over a fake statement about former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.
The image of the doctored statement from the PMO's website has been circulating on social media and on WhatsApp. Channel NewsAsia has checked and verified that the image is a fake. No new information has been released by the PMO.
Still, the fake image prompted
American broadcaster CNN and China's CCTV to put up
erroneous tweets that Mr Lee had died. The Chinese state broadcaster also broke the news
on air. CCTV has since deleted the erroneous tweet, and later posted: "News has come in that initial reports on the death of Lee Kuan Yew may have been faked, but it is still unclear."