Many Malaysians cannot tell the difference between real and fake stories

MCMC advocacy and outreach senior director Eneng Faridah Iskandar

CYBERJAYA: S. Sumita scores 10As in the PT3 exam. A jealous student rival then gets her boyfriend to tie her to a bunch of bricks and throw her into a river. It’s a great story and pictures of the happy girl with her family and that of her body being fished out of the river go viral.

There’s only one problem – it’s not true.