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KUALA LUMPUR: When the country was fighting the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) received 1,837 complaints of fake news about the Covid-19 vaccine.
The daily torrent of conflicting information in traditional and online media has made fact-checking even more vital today – although it is not easy to do it properly.