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Malaysia seeks help from tech firms to stem ‘false’ online content

August 17, 2015 creative 12-year-trough, communications, cooperation, debts-at-state, her-impeachment, minister-salleh, public-safety, the-established

Malaysia will ask three social media and Internet companies to curb content in the interest of public safety, the communications minister said on Monday. The request is the latest attempt by Malaysia’s embattled government to quell dissent after Prime Minister Najib Razak became embroiled in controversy over big debts at state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).