Comms minister Fahmi Fadzil says that social media giants Meta and X are not doing enough to tackle cyberbullying, scams, and other forms of harmful online content. FMT reports that he said this when launching the Communications and Multimedia Content Forum of Malaysia (CMCF) guidelines for the reporting and sharing of suicide-related content.
“We cannot have these social media platforms washing their hands of content that could also create online harm, particularly related to suicide”, he was quoted as saying. He also claims to have asked CMCF to engage with the two aforementioned companies – as well as other “major players” – but none have come forward to participate.
With Meta specifically, he added “Facebook, for example, said that they are going to be licensed. But they must understand that [the] Content Forum is not government-led. It’s industry-led. It’s actually in their best interest to participate so they can help develop best practices and codes of conduct”.
On the flip side, the minister has praises TikTok for voluntarily joining the CMCF. He noted that the platform took the initiative “very early on, even before we came up with the licensing regime for social media and online messaging systems”.
(Source: FMT)
