WHAT happens when someone steals your identity online as in the case of Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud and Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin? Do impersonator Facebook and Twitter accounts constitute identity theft? And what is being done and can be done about preventing these fake accounts?
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Najib and the social media illusion
The Digital Circus by Bernice Low
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak led the Barisan Nasional charge online in Malaysia’s first “social media election”. From the statistics, our prime minister appears immensely popular on social media. But do these statistics co-relate with the actual popularity or likeability of the Prime Minister? What is the true story behind these statistics?
Lessons in social media from Bersih 2.0
By Tricia Yeoh
IN the days before and after the Bersih 2.0 rally for electoral reform, Malaysian social networks were buzzing like never before. Internet chatter was centred around the biggest campaign in town: the street march in the heart of Kuala Lumpur on 9 July 2011. Thanks to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, users had a platform to […]
MP Watch on blogs
By Deborah Loh and Koh Lay ChinThe MP Watch: Eye on Parliament project on social media or blogs: http://unmalaysia.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/mp-watch-secular-state-pt-3/ http://www.malaysia-today.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31024:do-you-think-malaysia-should-be-a-secular-or-an-islamic-state-why&catid=16:from-around-the-blogs&Itemid=100132 http://www.negarakita.com/Post-35514-MP+Watch%3A+Eye+on+Parliament http://jesskan.tumblr.com/post/789625114/william-leong-jee-keen-selayang
