Malaysia's communications regulator said Meta's Facebook had been plagued by a 'significant volume' of harmful posts on issues including race, royalty, religion and online gambling.
KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia threatened to take legal action against Meta on Friday , accusing the tech giant of failing to remove"undesirable" content from Facebook.
It said Meta had failed to scrub such content despite repeated requests and raised the possibility of legal action against the United States firm.
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