News & Reviews: Social media
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Mar 14, 2024
Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil has assured that the government has no plans to create new laws or specific Acts for the purpose of regulating social media platforms. Furthermore, he stressed that the government has never even announced any intention to draft such legislation.
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Mar 14, 2024
Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil has assured that the government has no plans to create new laws or specific Acts for the purpose of regulating social media platforms. Furthermore, he stressed that the government has never even announced any intention to draft such legislation.
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Feb 01, 2024
Increasingly more people are on social media nowadays. But how many people are there? Most don't know unless they look at surveys or studies, so it's great that a new study was published to update netizens.
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Dec 27, 2023
The Ministry of Health (MOH) has announced that the authorities have blocked access to 1675 websites selling illegal pharmaceutical products in Malaysia. The action was taken under Operation Pangea XVI nationwide from 3 to 10 October, with various products worth over half a million ringgit also confiscated.
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Nov 30, 2023
The Ministry of Communications and Digital (KKD) revealed that it will summon several social media platform providers over inappropriate advertising content on their platforms. Its Minister, Fahmi Fadzil, said that discussions will be held aimed at getting clarifications concerning these ads.
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Oct 28, 2023
X (formerly Twitter) has been working hard on monetising its platform since Elon Musk took over. Earlier this week, Musk announced that a cheaper subscription tier would be available soon. That happened earlier today, as the company announced two new subscription plans.
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Aug 07, 2023
With X (Twitter) losing its user base, you'd think Threads was well-positioned to take over. But that's not the case, with the latter's daily active user count falling by over 80% within a month. Fortunately, an upcoming update could turn things around.
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Aug 04, 2023
When Threads first launched, it was met with hype and excitement for Internet users to explore the platform. However, half of the daily active users on Threads were gone after a week, and right now, the platform continues to drop drastically before reaching a month.
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Jul 29, 2023
X's problems are far from over, and it's funny to see Twitter's rebranding making more headlines. The platform's icon change alone seems to have resulted in some weird problems, including security-related ones.
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Jul 22, 2023
Twitter recently announced that free Twitter users will have more limitations put upon them, namely, more daily limits on the number of DMs or Direct Messages that they can send. According to an official tweet from Twitter Support, the move is to help reduce spam, but it seems like another incentive to sign up for the verified version of Twitter, which is Twitter Blue.
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