KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian authorities have summoned TikTok’s top management over the social media company’s alleged delays in tackling fake news on its platform, state news agency Bernama reported on Tuesday, citing Malaysia’s communications minister.
Minister Fahmi Fadzil said TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, had been too slow in responding to requests for assistance in police investigations, prompting him to ask the firm’s chief executive for help, Bernama reported.
Fahmi cited a recent case where a man had falsely claimed on TikTok to be a pathologist involved in an investigation into the high-profile death of a Malaysian teenager, the report said.
“TikTok was very slow in providing information... to the point that I had to call TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew to inform him, ‘this is a crime that’s being committed and your organization is very slow’,” Fahmi was quoted as saying.
“We cannot allow such an attitude.”
