Malaysia to Prosecute Facebook for Non-Compliance in Content Control

variety.com:

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The government of Malaysia said Friday that it will prosecute Meta Platforms for the failures of Facebook to comply with its requests to remove content.

In a statement, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission said that Facebook “has recently been plagued by a significant volume of undesirable contents” relating to the aspects of “race, royalty, religion, defamation, impersonation, online gambling as well as scam advertisements.” It said that it had asked Facebook to remove some content. “Despite repeated requests from MCMC, Meta has failed to take sufficient action to address the issue of undesirable contents on its platform and has not fully cooperated with efforts to remove such contents.

Meta’s response, which has been sluggish and unsatisfactory, has not met the urgency of the matter and has led to increasing public concern and scrutiny,” the agency said.Variety has reached out to Meta for comment.

But has not yet received a response. In recent weeks, Malaysia has also asked the Telegram app to take down material that may have been part of online scams.