KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob's political secretary Datuk Mohammad Anuar Mohd Yunus lodged a police report on Monday (Jan 31) against three news portals for disseminating fake news and defamation against the Bera MP.
Anuar lodged the report at the Dang Wangi district police headquarters here at about 2.40pm Monday.
He said a media portal issued a false report titled "Ismail Sabri worried about being the shortest PM, begs for support”, which was published Sunday (Jan 30) and reposted by two other portals on the same day.
"This is fake news and the event in the statement happened when the prime minister was at a function in Bera on Jan 29.
"Even at the media conference, from the three portals were not present at the location and they twisted the statement to raise doubts over the credibility of the prime minister,” he told a media conference in front of the Dang Wangi police headquarters after lodging the report.
Anuar said they would let the police carry out an investigation and take appropriate action against the three portals, which intentionally and unethically produced the false article against the prime minister.
Dang Wangi OCPD Asst Comm Noor Dellhan Yahaya confirmed receiving the report. - Bernama
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