The riots wouldn’t have happened without Facebook.
Indeed, too many hoaxes, too many misinformation, too many lazy people that they are so lazy to read, so lazy to find the origin source, or a simple googling. This also happened to my own family, just instant share, did not mind whether the news are true or false, because it’s someone they know who were share the news, they will think that the news/article/propaganda are true.
‘Queen of Dragons’: The inside story of Malaysia’s election fixer
The stories in it, he said, could “coax, influence and instigate” people to convert, and thus amounted to proselytising—a crime in Malaysia, where two systems of law, civil and shariah, run in parallel.
Well, we have this kind of issue and actually ‘they’ succeed to thrown Ahok, using defamiation and Islam blasphemy issue to drag him to jail. even tho he did not use or blasphemed any of it. but it’s the only tool to dethrown him, and we have a less-excellent governor.