Malaysia is poised to set up a bipartisan parliamentary panel to look into how to deal with fake news using current laws or other methods, as it goes ahead with repealing the Anti-Fake News Act (AFNA).
The Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition came into power after the May 2018 election, promising to do away with a raft of laws it claims were put in place to suppress freedom under the six-decade-long Barisan Nasional regime.
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