Najib: Press freedom comes with responsibility to counter fake news


  • Nation
  • Wednesday, 19 Apr 2017

- Bernama

KUALA LUMPUR: With the thriving freedom of speech, it is part of the responsibility of the media to counter false and fake news, says Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak (pic).

"With freedom comes responsibility, and part of that responsibility is the need to counter what has become a plague, a plague of false and fake news," he said in his speech at the Wan-Ifra16th Asian Media Awards on Wednesday night.

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