Woman nabbed for spreading fake news on supermarket closure

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BUKIT MERTAJAM: Police have detained a woman to facilitate investigations into the spread of fake news claiming that a supermarket in Bandar Sunway, S...

Police have detained a woman to facilitate investigations into the spread of fake news claiming that a supermarket in Bandar Sunway, Seberang Jaya here was closed after being visited by a Covid-19 positive patient yesterday.

He said the woman was alleged to have posted a status on her Facebook account which reads “The suspected case at Flat Tuna has been confirmed positive. The patient went shopping at Billion, Bandar Sunway. Billion has been closed until a date to be announced later for sanitisation”. “Describing the allegation as slanderous, the management then lodged a police report,” he said in a statement today.

However, he said the woman also admitted that she did not verify the authenticity of the information she received before sharing it.

 

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