Singaporean made Facebook pages in name of detractors to promote anti-Islam propaganda

A man made fake Facebook accounts that looked like they belonged to people he didn’t like and used them to post hateful things about Muslims.

As a result, the impersonator had to endure at least two police investigations.

On November 18, authorities caught Chua Wang Cheng, 33, and ordered him to close the accounts. He admitted to one charge under the Act to Protect People from Harassment.

Besides that, he admitted to two charges of sharing content that was meant to hurt Muslims’ religious feelings. We will use four other charges similar to this one to determine his sentence.

As part of his national service, Chua met the victim in 2011. The court heard that a gag order prevents naming the victim.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Samuel Chew said Chua didn’t like the victim because he thought the victim was cocky and rude to him.

Chua made a Facebook account in February 2019 using the victim’s name and picture. He also became “friends” with 627 other people on Facebook.

Chua shared images of the victim along with documents related to him, including a recommendation and a thank-you letter from the Singapore Armed Forces.

In September of that year, a number of Facebook users said the account was fake. Chua then shut down the account.

An anonymous report also claimed that the account’s posts incited hatred among Singaporeans of various races and faiths.

After that, the cops talked to the victim. The same day, he told police the Facebook account wasn’t personal.

After that, Chua started the Facebook account again, but the social media company later closed it because it broke their community guidelines.

After this, Chua made another Facebook account with the victim’s name and picture.

He shared two anti-Islamic YouTube movies in November 2019 with this second account.

After reviewing the videos, Majilis Ugama Islam Singapura (Muis) claimed that one of them insulted Islam and the Prophet Muhammad.

Muis claimed that the other movie disparaged Islam, the Prophet Muhammad, and Muslims in general.

Chew of the DPP said that Chua did not make the videos, but he shared them on purpose to hurt the religious feelings of Muslim Facebook users.

In October 2020, three people called the cops on the second Facebook account because it had offensive material. The investigation revealed that the victim had suffered harm once more that year.

The court papers didn’t say how Chua was caught in the end, but he did admit to his crimes while they were being investigated.

DPP Chew said, “Chua also admitted that he posted content under the victim’s name on purpose because he didn’t like the victim.”

Chua also sent a message on WeChat to someone he didn’t know in which he said it “felt really good to post anti-Muslim content.”

In a police report, the victim said that his image got in the way of his personal and work life.

Chua told a translator in Mandarin that he needed more time to work on his mitigation plea. He didn’t have a lawyer by his side.

District Judge Carol Ling put off his sentence until December 16.