PETALING JAYA: Malaysia’s Online Safety Act 2025 (ONSA) is needed to make online safety a legal obligation for major social media platforms, rather than a matter left to their own discretion, according to the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC).
While MCMC data shows major platforms such as Facebook removed 92% of 697,061 harmful posts flagged between January 2024 and November 2025, deputy managing director Zulkarnain Yasin said 58,104 are still left online, and it is not a small number.
“If you take 1% of that total, you are already looking at almost 7,000 harmful posts that are still there,” he told FMT.