TikTok bans 23 accounts
over coverage of alleged
sexual assault at mosque
Communications minister Fahmi Fadzil says their content has also been automatically removed.
Communications minister Fahmi Fadzil also said TikTok had automatically removed the content.
According to TikTok’s guidelines, an account can be permanently banned if a user were to “post, promote, or facilitate youth exploitation or child sexual abuse material”.
Earlier today, Fahmi had said the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission was in contact with TikTok for clarification on the blocking of the accounts of 18 local media organisations.
He said the problem lay with TikTok’s artificial intelligence, which at times failed to understand the nature of news reports.
Separately, he said the government was looking into a claim by X that it did not have eight million users in Malaysia, the minimum number which would make it compulsory for the micro-blogging platform to obtain a licence.
“MCMC is carrying out a thorough survey to verify this before taking further action,” he said.
All social media and messaging platforms with more than eight million users are required to obtain a licence under the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 from Jan 1 in a move to curb scams, cyberbullying, and sexual crimes.
To date, WeChat, TikTok, and Telegram have obtained licences.
Fahmi had also said in January that Meta, the parent company of WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram, was in the final stages of securing an application service provider class licence in Malaysia.
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