Malaysian authorities set up brigade to monitor blogs

Not only in Russia there are state brigades for tracking forums for the purpose of agitation and counter-propaganda. Similar units are going to be created, for example, by the Malaysian authorities. Such plans were announced by the Ministry of Information of this Asian country.

Like their Russian and Chinese colleagues, specially hired Malays will participate in online discussions, respond to the facts of lies, anti-state propaganda and disinformation on the forums. The arguments of the "brigade" will be exclusively patriotic.

Malaysian authorities took this step, being confident of the negative nature of the blogosphere, in which thousands of false rumors are easily created and spread. More recently, two well-known Malay bloggers have been convicted of libel. And last year, Malaysia officially introduced Internet censorship . “We cannot allow our citizens to be deceived and misled on major issues related to the development of our society. This primarily relates to political and economic issues that are published uncontrollably on the Internet, ”the Malaysian Prime Minister said at the time.
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via TerraNet