KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 21 — The official campaigning for the 15th general election (GE15) will only kick off on Nov 5 but political parties are already making their presence felt on social media, aiming their pitches at netizens who have yet to decide which “camp” to support.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 23 — Malaysians have been advised not to be deceived and to be cautious with posts uploaded on a fake Facebook account using the name of the Malaysian Immigration Department.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 20 — A table talk to settle a misunderstanding over a Facebook post turned ugly as a man ended up with 12 stitches after being assaulted at a restaurant in Bandar Mahkota Cheras near here on Friday.

TELUK INTAN, June 9 — The act of taking drugs which were uploaded on Facebook led to the arrest of a man at Chenderong Balai yesterday.

SHAH ALAM, April 29 — The Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) says it had contacted the Facebook account owner who had uploaded an RM20 repentance package poster.

WASHINGTON, Oct 15 — WhatsApp users with encrypted messages on their smartphones will now be able to keep the encryption when storing their messages on Google Drive and iCloud, the messaging app’s parent company Facebook said on Thursday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 5 — Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has apologised to users around the world who faced disruption in accessing Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

REUTERS, Oct 5 — Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp at least partially reconnected to the global internet late on Monday afternoon Eastern time, nearly six hours into an outage that paralyzed the social media platform.

TOKYO, July 24 — National men’s singles ace, Lee Zii Jia won’t be looking down on any of the opponents that he will be facing in the Tokyo Olympics.

WASHINGTON, April 5 — A leaker says they are offering information on more than 500 million Facebook Inc users — including phone numbers and other data — virtually for free.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 16 — Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today proposed for the registration for vaccination and dispensing of the Covid-19 vaccine to be further eased.

REUTERS, March 15 — Facebook Inc, which has been criticized by lawmakers and researchers for allowing vaccine misinformation to spread on its platforms, said on Monday it has started adding labels to posts that discuss the safety of the shots and will soon label all posts about the vaccines.

KAJANG, Feb 25 — A kuih seller was charged in the Sessions Court here today with internet abuse over live recording he made against the Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) on his Facebook account which went viral on social media last year.

JOHOR BAHRU, Feb 15 — Love scam, Macau scam, Nigerian scam and now there is another one - IMF grant scam.

REUTERS, Feb 9 — Facebook Inc said on Monday it will expand a list of false health claims it bans from the platform to include debunked claims about vaccines in general, such as that they are toxic or cause autism.

PUTRAJAYA, Feb 6 — The  Communications and Multimedia Ministry (MCMC) is keen to share  Facebook's experience on its involvement in Covid-19 vaccination programme in several countries as a guide for Malaysia to carry out a similar programme, said its Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah.

MOSCOW, Feb 4 — Facebook said on Thursday that its services had been limited in Myanmar following the military takeover in the southeastern Asian nation, reported Sputnik news agency.

REUTERS, Nov 22 — Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc will transfer control of the @POTUS account to the Joe Biden administration on January 20, the social media companies said on Saturday.

ISLAMABAD, Oct 27 — Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan called on Facebook to ban Islamophobic content on its platform, warning of a spike in radicalisation amongst Muslims, hours after he hit out at the French president for "attacking Islam".

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 14 — As coronavirus infections surged in Malaysia this year, a wave of hate speech and misinformation aimed at Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar began appearing on Facebook.