April 9, 2024 12:27 PM

Malaysia sees surge in social media content restriction requests

Malaysia urged Facebook operator Meta META.O and short video service TikTok to step up monitoring on their platforms, it said on Tuesday, with the government reporting sharp increases in harmful social media content this year. In the first three months of 2024, the government referred 51,638 cases to social media platforms, including Meta and TikTok, for further action, up from 42,904 cases recorded in the whole of last year, the communications regulator and Malaysian police said in a joint sta...