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Published on 02/05/2025

Hair styling product cannot be used to treat knee pain

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Published on 21/04/2025

Local media report taken out of context in misleading posts about crude palm oil tax

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Artificial intelligence
Published on 09/04/2025

False posts share AI-generated footage of fire caused by gas leak in Malaysia

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Published on 09/04/2025

Malaysian govt agency warns against false 'gadget grant' offers

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Published on 07/04/2025

Fabricated video falsely claims 'new travel restrictions' imposed on Malaysians

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Published on 04/04/2025

No evidence to support use of warm betel leaves applied to babies' skin to treat phlegm

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Published on 25/03/2025

Oarfish sighting does not foreshadow natural disasters

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Artificial intelligence
Published on 24/03/2025

Images of 'Malaysian' crocodile-riding race are AI-generated

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Published on 21/03/2025

Political party disowns document of 'grand plans' to overhaul Malay special rights

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Published on 20/03/2025

No truth to recirculating 'strawberry quick' drug hoax: Sri Lanka officials

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Published on 18/03/2025

Baskin Robbins holds US halal certification recognised by Malaysian government

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Published on 13/03/2025

Malaysian-made instant coffee mix contains prescription erectile dysfunction drug

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Published on 07/03/2025

Posts about Ikea 'shutting down' in Malaysia misrepresent store's one-day early closure

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Published on 07/03/2025

Paediatricians warn against using onion fumes as cough remedy

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Published on 05/03/2025

Doctored image of Malaysian anti-graft chief in hospital spreads after ex-PM probed

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Published on 28/02/2025

Old news video shared alongside misleading claims political party 'sold citizenship' to Chinese nationals

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Vaccines
Published on 28/02/2025

Malaysia's free flu shot scheme sparks false 'depopulation' claims

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Published on 19/02/2025

Skincare products containing mercury banned by Malaysian authorities promoted online as 'chemical free'

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Published on 18/02/2025

Malaysian police and local bank warn public about 'lottery scam'

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Published on 13/02/2025

No tsunami warning issued for Malaysian district inundated by floods

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Published on 11/02/2025

Malaysian chicken sausage producer holds valid halal certification and is not 'pig farming' business

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Published on 07/02/2025

Malaysian authorities say DNA test only prerequisite for birth registrations in specific cases

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Covid-19
Published on 21/01/2025

Misquoted Lancet report sparks misinformation on Covid vaccines, autism

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Artificial intelligence
Published on 08/01/2025

AI imagery passed off as genuine pictures of UAE plane crash

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Published on 04/01/2025

Malaysian social media users share fabricated graphic about special retirement fund withdrawal

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Published on 30/12/2024

Accounts posing as Malaysian health ministry promote unauthorised joint pain medicine

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Artificial intelligence
Published on 25/12/2024

AI-generated image passed off as 'living megalodon discovered by German fishermen'

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Published on 20/12/2024

Article claiming Malaysia's former king 'angry with Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim' is fabricated

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