KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 -- Pengerang MP Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said today suggested that the government was attempting to silence social media users by enabling the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) to delete their comments.

The former de facto law minister also asked what powers MCMC has to assess comments it deems improper on social media and delete them, pointing out that under the Anti-Fake News Act 2018 devised during Barisan Nasional's (BN) era, only the courts were empowered to do so.

"Recently, I was rather shocked when the Communications and Multimedia Minister (Gobind Singh) said that an Act will be formulated to nip the spreading of fake news," she said when debating the King's address in Dewan Rakya...