Plagiarism In 2019, Mothership was caught copying content from
Today without giving attribution. The content was amended to include an attribution and was subsequently removed.
Lin Lin On 19 September 2023, Mothership reported on a Singapore-based Chinese influencer, Lin Lin, and misreported that she was a "tourist from China" when she had been living in Singapore for eight years and had been creating "helpful" content about life in Singapore. After the inaccurate article was published, Lin Lin became the subject of inappropriate comments, which she said was affecting her private life. Her private requests to Mothership for amendments were largely ignored. Mothership then changed its headline to replace "tourist" with "woman", of which Lin Lin viewed as "a deliberate attempt at causing controversy". She publicly requested for Mothership to take down the "false content" and issue a public apology in a video rant, after which Mothership apologised in an editor's note on the article, and amended their article while taking down the accompanying Instagram post. Subsequently, Mothership and Lin Lin published a public statement saying that Lin Lin has accepted Mothership’s apology and hopes to move on from the matter.
Breaking of embargo On 18 February 2022, Mothership published an infographic on the
Goods and Services Tax hike ahead of a
press embargo. As a result, the site had its government press accreditation suspended for six months after an appeal was submitted to the
Ministry of Communications and Information, thus losing access to press conferences and media briefings held by government agencies. On 29 September 2023, its government press accreditation was suspended for breaking embargo on an impending hike on water usage charges in Singapore, with a member of its editorial team breaching the safeguards put in place after the previous break of embargo. The suspension was lifted in March 2024. == References ==