SINGAPORE - The Online Citizen (TOC) has repeatedly failed to declare all its funding sources for last year despite reminders and extensions, and it has been asked to explain its non-compliance, the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) said on Tuesday (Sept 7). TOC has informed IMDA that it does not intend to comply with its obligations under the law, IMDA said, adding that it may take "appropriate enforcement action" if TOC is unable to provide good reasons for its non-compliance. It did not elaborate on what action it might take. In a media statement, IMDA said that there is no reason for TOC not to comply with the declaration requirement as other registered Internet content providers provide such information to maintain transparency of their sources of funding. It noted that TOC complied with the annual declaration when it was first registered in 2018, but has not fully complied with this obligation since 2019. The regulator added that TOC failed to verify a donor and clarify discrepancies in its foreign advertising revenue in its 2019 declaration, for which a warning was issued on May 4. "The threat of foreign interference in our domestic politics has always been present...