Editing People's Action Party (section)

===Young PAP and internet presence===
The Young PAP is the youth-wing of the party, serving as a [[youth organisation]] for young adults and students in Singapore who support the PAP and have an interest in [[politics]].<ref name=":02">{{Cite book |last=Tan |first=Kenneth Paul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YNnbx98ixNkC |title=Renaissance Singapore? Economy, Culture, and Politics: Economy, Culture, and Politics |date=1 January 2007 |publisher=NUS Press |isbn=9789971693770 |pages=162, 231–236}}</ref> The incumbent chairman of the youth-wing is [[Janil Puthucheary]].<ref>{{cite news |date=2 December 2011 |title=People's Action Party Central Executive Committee |newspaper=People's Action Party |url=http://www.pap.org.sg/leadership.php/ |access-date=25 December 2012 |archive-date=7 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120707094745/http://www.pap.org.sg/leadership.php |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Chan Chun Sing is new Young PAP chairman |url=http://www.asiaone.com/print/News/Latest+News/Singapore/Story/A1Story20121214-389561.html |access-date=6 September 2017 |website=www.asiaone.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=9 December 2000 |title=Young PAP members: Who they are |work=Today |url=http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/today20001209-1.2.4.4 |access-date=6 September 2017}}</ref> The YP's predecessor, the PAP Youth Committee, was established in 1986, under [[Lee Hsien Loong]]'s tenure as Chairman. All PAP members under the age of 35 had then been grouped under the Youth Committee. In 1993, the Youth Committee was renamed the Young PAP. In an effort to attract members, then Chairman [[George Yeo]] said that people joining the YP could take positions different from [[Central Executive Committee (PAP)|central party leadership]]. The age limit was raised from 35 to 40.<ref name="rodan101">{{cite book |last=Rodan |first=Gary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j2QCDIjRS2AC&dq=young+pap+singapore&pg=PA101 |title=Political oppositions in industrialising Asia |publisher=[[Psychology Press]] |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-415-14865-8 |pages=101}}</ref> Memberships are issued through the PAP branches under each constituency in Singapore.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Getting out of apathy zone |url=http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne+News/Singapore/Story/A1Story20100219-199622.html |access-date=6 September 2017 |website=www.asiaone.com}}</ref> By 2005, the committee had grown to more than 6,000 members.<ref>{{cite news |date=5 January 2008 |title=Young PAP taps S'poreans abroad |work=[[The New Paper]] |location=Singapore |url= |access-date=}}</ref> In 2010, then Vice-Chairman [[Zaqy Mohamad]] said the YP attracts over 1200 new members that year, an increase on the 1000 new members in 2009.<ref>{{Cite news |date=8 November 2010 |title=More joining Young PAP: Zaqy |work=TODAY |url=http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/today20101108-1.2.7.1 |access-date=6 September 2017}}</ref>

Since 1995, the youth-wing of the PAP has had an internet presence that aims to "correct 'misinformation' about Singapore politics or culture".<ref name="Mickey">{{cite magazine |date=1 July 1995 |title=Mickey Unbound |url=https://www.wired.com/1995/07/updata-41/ |url-status=live |magazine=Wired |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160210032937/https://www.wired.com/1995/07/updata-41/ |archive-date=10 February 2016 |access-date=6 November 2017}}</ref> Under the urging of then [[Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts#Ministers|Minister for Information and the Arts]] George Yeo, Young PAP took charge of running several online websites to create an online presence for the party.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Chen |first=Tommi |date=14 March 1995 |title=Internet world watches as Young PAP enters cyberspace |work=The Straits Times}}</ref> After popular forum [[Sintercom]] was shut down in 2001, the Young PAP offered their own forum for moderated discussions.<ref>{{Cite news |date=24 August 2001 |title=Want to talk politics? |work=TODAY |url=http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/today20010824-1.2.2 |access-date=6 September 2017}}</ref> They have since set up various blogs and social media accounts with multimedia content to engage the masses.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Chang |first=Rachel |date=18 March 2010 |title=YP to close 2 Facebook pages |work=The Straits Times |url=http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/issue/straitstimes20100318-1 |access-date=7 September 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=9 July 2008 |title=See you on Facebook |work=TODAY |url=http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/today20080709-1.2.7 |access-date=6 September 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Au-Yong |first=Rachel |date=14 May 2014 |title=PAP responds to criticisms of viral video by its youth wing |work=The Straits Times |url=http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/pap-responds-to-criticisms-of-viral-video-by-its-youth-wing |access-date=6 September 2017}}</ref>

In February 2007, it was reported by ''[[The Straits Times]]'' that the PAP's new media committee chaired by Minister [[Ng Eng Hen]], had initiated an effort to counter critics anonymously on the [[Internet]] "as it was necessary for the PAP to have a voice on cyberspace".<ref name=":3">{{cite news |author=Li Xueying |date=3 February 2007 |title=PAP moves to counter criticism of party, Govt in cyberspace |newspaper=The Straits Times |location=Singapore}}</ref> The initiative was divided by two sub-committees, one of which was in charge of strategising the campaigns and is co-headed by Minister [[Lui Tuck Yew]] and MP Zaqy Mohamad. The other sub-committee—new media capabilities group led by MPs [[Baey Yam Keng]] and [[Josephine Teo]] executed the strategies. The initiative was set up after the [[2006 Singaporean general election|2006 general election]] and also included around 20 IT-savvy PAP activists.<ref name=":3" />