KUALA LUMPUR: Legal action is being mulled against Facebook for a “lack of cooperation” toward efforts to address online scams on the platform, says Communications Minister Datuk Fahmi Fadzil.
Fahmi said he will leave it to the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) to get in touch with the social media giant on the matter.
“In my opinion, legal action may have to be taken but I leave it to the MCMC on this, and give them (Facebook) a last opportunity to prove that they do want to cooperate with the government,” he told reporters after attending the Inter-Agency Retreat on Combatting Online Scam here on Sunday (May 24).
Fahmi said that 271,472 takedown requests for harmful content across all online platforms were made between Jan 1 and May 23 this year.
Of this number, 91% of the requests comprised scams and online gambling-related content.
According to the minister, 81% of the online gambling content was on Facebook, while 58% of the online scam content was on the same platform.
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