KUALA LUMPUR: Social media platform TikTok said on Friday allegations from the Malaysian government that it was blocking pro-Palestinian content were "unfounded".
KUCHING: Social media platform providers have been given a one-month deadline to respond to the code of conduct, after which they will be required to register with the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) for licensing purposes, says Fahmi Fadzil.
Meta Platforms has restored Facebook posts by Malaysian media covering Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s meeting this week with a Hamas leader, saying they were removed in error.
Meta Platforms apologised on Aug 6 for erroneously removing Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s social media posts in which he expressed condolences to a Hamas official about the assassination of the group's leader Ismail Haniyeh.
PETALING JAYA: The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) is demanding an apology and explanation from Meta Platforms for removing posts on Instagram related to Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s meeting with Hamas leaders in Doha, Qatar in May.
The latest effort to restrict the popular video-sharing app faces its next battle in the Senate, where support appears mixed and a vote has not been scheduled‘Just because Congress is falling all over itself for members to demonstrate how hawkish they are on China, that doesn’t mean compromising the First Amendment’
The latest effort to restrict the popular video-sharing app faces its next battle in the Senate, where support appears mixed and a vote has not been scheduled‘Just because Congress is falling all over itself for members to demonstrate how hawkish they are on China, that doesn’t mean compromising the First Amendment’
Malaysia will ask Meta Platforms to explain the removal of posts from Facebook related to media reports of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s publicised meeting this week with a Hamas leader, its government said on May 15.
PUTRAJAYA: Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil hopes that the incident involving the operator of the social media platform, Meta Platforms Inc (Meta), which removed a news report of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's meeting with Hamas leader on its social media platform, will not be repeated in the future.
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SINGAPORE: A housewife who managed social media groups supporting Islamist militant and terrorist organisations, and a cleaner keen on joining terror group ISIS have been apprehended.
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PETALING JAYA: The assassination of former Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniyeh is a heinous murder that is aimed at stalling ongoing truce talks in the Gaza conflict that has persisted since October last year, says Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
Major American social media companies sometimes describe the task of identifying disinformation or other malevolent material pushed online by state actors as an endless game of cat and mouse.
PETALING JAYA: The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has demanded a detailed explanation and a public apology from Meta Platforms Inc over the deletion of several pro-Palestinian posts made by the Prime Minister’s official accounts.
KUALA LUMPUR: A trader told the Sessions Court that he lodged a police report because he was worried about potential fighting and unrest following the purported provocative remarks by Wan Muhammad Azri Wan Deris, known as Papagomo, linking the government with Israel and the West.