MCMC in collaboration with social media platform providers has taken down a total of 1,565 contents that violate community guidelines

 

Deputy Minister of Communications and Digital Teo Nie Ching during the presentation of the Bill at the Dewan Rakyat Conference at the Parliament Building today. - BERNAMA photo

MCMC) in collaboration with social media platform providers has taken down a total of 1,565 contents that violate community guidelines set from 2022 until last April.

Deputy Minister of Communications and Digital Teo Nie Ching said since the establishment of a special task force to deal with fake news and the 3Rs (race, religion and Royal institutions) on Dec 1, a total of 195 sensitive or provocative contents have been detected and 80 percent of them have already been taken down. in collaboration with the platform provider.

"Since the establishment of the task force, the MCMC has proactively carried out monitoring activities and has identified content that has the potential to be fake news," he said at the roll-out session of the Fee (Malaysian Broadcasting Department) (Approval) Bill 2023 at the Dewan Rakyat here. today.

The bill was then approved after being debated by four Members of Parliament from the Government and the opposition.

Meanwhile, Teo said the Fees (Malaysian Broadcasting Department) (Confirmation) Bill 2023, is to confirm the collection of television program fees made by the Malaysian Broadcasting Department (RTM) from 15 March 2001 to 28 February 2022 and so that it is more orderly in accordance with law.

He said, RTM has charged a fee on the television programs it owns based on the RTM Program Fee Rate approved by the Treasury on 2 February 2000 and the Cabinet Meeting on 14 March 2001.

Teo said in addition to that RTM has also generated a revenue collection of RM1,762,530 on behalf of the government starting from 15 March 2001 until 28 February 2022 after the Cabinet of Ministers agreed that the RTM Service Fee Rate for copies of television programs and service charges for providing subtitles and translations be applied to customer.

However, he said the collection for the television program was postponed after it was found that no gazette was made for the imposition of the fee and it was not in line with the 'Treasury Directive WP 10.1 Determination of Payment Rates and Government Forms'.

The conference continues tomorrow.

-- NAMED