No plans to ban Telegram for civil servants, assures government spokesman


PUTRAJAYA: There are no plans to prohibit civil servants from using the Telegram social messaging platform, says Fahmi Fadzil.

“Any instructions involving this aspect of security usually is managed under the Chief Government Security Office,” he said in a press conference after the weekly post-Cabinet meeting, which was chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof here on Wednesday (Aug 21).

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