KUALA LUMPUR (BERNAMA) - Malaysia has arrested a full of 249 local in addition to unusual individuals suspected of recruiting members for terrorism through social media in addition to then far, Deputy Home Minister Masir Kujat said on Tuesday (March 13). Datuk Masir said 240 of them carried out their modus operandi through Facebook, viii through Twitter in addition to roughly other 1 through Instagram. “The arrests were made every bit a final result of police pull news in addition to monitoring past times the Counter Messaging Centre,” he told Parliament during a sitting on Tuesday. Mr Masir was responding to a interrogation from a Barisan Nasional lawmaker on the government’s efforts to curb the spread of terrorism on social media.
He said on Facebook, roughly 3,871 accounts were monitored, piece 800 accounts were blocked. On Twitter, 76 individuals were monitored in addition to nine accounts blocked, piece on Instagram, 72 individuals are beingness monitored.
He added that, to date, nineteen individuals, including a foreigner, was currently undergoing a deradicalisation programme nether the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2015 (Pota).
“The deradicalisation is systematically implemented using an integrated deradicalisation module for terrorists roofing aspects of religious, civic, psychological, solid unit of measurement in addition to moral values,” he said.
“The success of this programme volition presently live on seen every bit the released prisoners volition provide to the community in addition to live on no longer involved alongside terrorism,"he added.
To ensure the programme is successful, he said the programming module was constantly beingness reviewed in addition to improved, through cooperation alongside international parties on ways to curb terrorism.
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