Cops opened probe into 1,897 social media cases since 2019

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Bukit Aman CID chief says between March 18 last year and June 20 this year, there have been 254 cases involving dissemination of fake news on Covid-19. FMTNews

Police say 844 or 44.5% of the cases involving social media postings have been solved.

He said of this number, 185 cases touched on the royal institution, 112 cases involved racial matters, 168 cases concerned insults against religions and 248 cases were offences against the government. “During the period from March 18 last year to June 20 this year, investigations into dissemination of fake news on Covid-19 recorded 254 cases, and of this, 109 cases have been solved and 145 are still under investigation,” he said in a statement today.

He said these cases involved the sharing of fake news or incitements which can stir up feelings of disloyalty, create public anxiety or threaten national harmony through reports disparaging the royal institution, the government, administration of justice, and impinging racial and religious sensitivities.

 

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