{
  "id": 16234498,
  "title": "Asia’s baby-starved governments want people to date, but who has time?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/asias-baby-starved-governments-want-people-to-date-but-who-has-time",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-23T21:30:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/opinion/asia-opinion/article/3371633/asias-baby-starved-governments-want-people-date-who-has-time"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "In late September, Singapore’s Reddit community erupted over the government’s new dating platform, FirstDate. Curious to get an insider’s perspective, I visited the site, connected to my Singpass account and watched as my name, age and marital status auto-populated the fields on the page. I entered my Gmail address and hit submit. The email field turned red: “Please sign up with your official…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}