PETALING JAYA: Health minister Khairy Jamaluddin said he has instructed that a police report be lodged against a social media user for spreading fake news about Covid-19 vaccines.
He also instructed that a report be lodged with the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC).
“There is a time to educate and engage. But there is also a time to enforce the law. Enough lies,” he tweeted.
FMT is withholding the identity of the Twitter user.
Some of the user’s recent tweets, which have since been deleted, linked deaths to the vaccines.
However, another user called him out, denying that her father died after getting his vaccination.
“The data was taken from social media without any permission. Then (the user) assumed my dad died because of the vaccine. It is too much,” she wrote, adding that her father died from coronary artery disease.