Annuar Musa: MCMC received over 6,000 cyberbullying and harassment complaints from 2020 to July this year


KUALA LUMPUR: Over 6,000 complaints of online bullying and sexual harassment were among the cases investigated by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) since the beginning of last year, says Tan Sri Annuar Musa.

"From 2020 to July this year, the MCMC received 6,598 public complaints in general related to online harassment," the Communications and Multimedia Minister said in a written reply to Syed Ibrahim Syed Noh (PH-Ledang) in the Dewan Rakyat on Monday (Sept 20).

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