PARLIAMENT | An opposition lawmaker today questioned whether the government would have a monopoly on what is to be defined as fake news under a new law to be tabled in the Dewan Rakyat next week.

Sim Tze Tzin (PKR-Bayan Baru), who asked this, was referring to Deputy Communications and Multimedia Minister Jailani Johari’s statement yesterday that any 1MDB-related information which was unverified by the Malaysian authorities would be considered as fake news.

Sim said there was a long list of foreign media reports linking the 1MDB affair to Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.

“All this news from overseas are by organisations with high credibility and long histories, but the government says these are all fake news,” he said...