KUCHING – The Communications Ministry will hold a meeting with representatives of all social media platforms in Singapore next month, minister Fahmi Fadzli said.
He said the meeting was following the actions of Facebook’s parent company, Meta, which took down the posting of a news report by Malaysian media about the meeting between Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Qatar on May 13.
“So this meeting is for clarification on several matters, including the principle of media freedom, that should be cooperated on,” he told reporters after opening the National Journalists Day, or Hawana, exhibition here today.
Fahmi said Meta’s actions were unreasonable as the company should have been more aware of the matter.
“The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission has also sent a letter to Meta to get an explanation from them,” he said. – May 25, 2024