Senior federal counsel Awang Armadajaya Awang Mahmud said Malaysiakini was not adversely affected by the law.

“Besides that, they had named the wrong party in their judicial review application. They should have named minister in the Prime Minister’s Department and not the home minister,” he said.

Malaysiakini applied for the judicial review to quash the law before the May 9 election, saying it breached the Federal Constitution.

It also said the law was unreasonable and irrational as its definition of “fake news” was unclear.

High Court judge Justice Azizah Nawawi fixed June 6 to rule on whether to allow Malaysiakini leave to challenge the validity of the law.

Meanwhile, lawyer N Surendran, representing Malaysiakini, argued that the portal filed the challenge as the law would affect how it reported the news.

Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad had said the Pakatan Harapan government would not retain the Anti­-Fake News law created by the previous Barisan Nasional government.