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Features : Why Hate Speech Outruns Facts On Social Media
By Nina Muslim KUALA LUMPUR, July 6 (Bernama) -- With the Online Safety Act 2025 now in force in Malaysia, discussions are continuing on how best to curb hate speech, divisive rhetoric and misinformation on social media platforms. Adding urgency to the debate are the upcoming state elections in Johor and Negeri Sembilan. Election periods are usually the time when there is an uptick in politically-driven negative content and fake news on social media. Speaking at the Harmony Symposium at Parliament building on June 26, organised by the secretariat of the Malaysian Parliamentary Cross-Party Group on Racial and Religious Harmony, Dr Nazirul Hazim A Khalim, an econometrics and business statistics lecturer at Monash University-Malaysia, said their research has found that social media users did not care if the source of the post they are sharing is from an official source.
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