Fake news, hate speech new game-plan to destroy national unity

| Malaysians must give serious attention to the latest Oxford Internat Institute Report on 'The Global Disinformation Order: 2019 Global Inventory of Organised Social Media Manipulation' as it gives a timely warning of the national risks if fake news and hate speech to incite inter-racial and inter-religious polarisation in Malaysia are allowed untrammelled licence.

The report states that such tools are used in 45 democracies, by politicians and political parties, to amass fake followers or spread manipulated news to garner voter support. Oxford researchers examined how cyber troops used different communication strategies to manipulate public opinion, such as creating disinformation, mass-reporting content or accounts, and employing abusive strategies such as trolling, doxing or harassment.

There is clearly a new game-plan to cause the collapse and disintegration of the Harapan government by creating or magnifying rifts and divisions between political parties and personalities in Harapan, and distorting them into racial or religious conflicts. On the eve of the Sungai Kandis by-election gathering in August last year, Tajuddin made the wild, preposterous, reckless, most incendiary and seditious allegation that the DAP has an agenda to Christianise Malaysia and that the DAP and “Christian-led Harapan government” would want to abolish the Malay monarchy and establish a republic.

I am not aware that Pua and Yeoh are ministers. Pua and Loke have Christian names but are not Christians. I do not believe that a Malay is anti-Chinese, anti-Indian, anti-Kadazan, anti-Iban in the same way that I do not believe that a good Muslim is anti-Christianity, anti-Buddhism, anti-Hinduism, anti-Sikhism or anti-Taoism. Similarly, a Chinese or an Indian is not anti-Malay, and a good Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh or Taoist is not anti-Muslim.

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