KUALA LUMPUR: Fake news threatens the quality of politics in a country because it erodes public trust in both the media and politicians, said former Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
While fake information was always present in the realm of politics, he said, it had never been delivered at such scale, scope and speed before the advent of social media.
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