Malaysia urged Facebook operator Meta META.O and short video service TikTok to step up monitoring on their platforms.
KUALA LUMPUR — 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.
TikTok, owned by China's ByteDance, and Meta were also urged to curb content indicating coordinated inauthentic behavior, or related to financial scams and illegal online gambling, the agencies said.Race and religion are sensitive issues in Malaysia, which has a mainly Muslim ethnic Malay majority, alongside significant ethnic Chinese and Indian minorities. It also has laws prohibiting seditious remarks or insults against its monarchy.
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