AI portal to take on scammers

Informing the masses: Fahmi (third from right) officiating the Jom Baca Bersama 10 Minit programme at the Communications Ministry. He is flanked by Deputy Communications Minister Teo Nie Ching and the ministry’s secretary-general, Datuk Mohamad Fauzi Md Isa. — Bernama

PUTRAJAYA: A portal using artificial intelligence (AI) will be created to help people verify the information they receive, repel defamatory news and fight fraud or scams, says Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil.

The portal, he said, would be expanded from the special segment Biar Betul! that is broadcast on RTM, as the segment – which is less than a minute long – was insufficient and needed to be revved up to deal with the issue, Bernama reported.