KUALA LUMPUR: A housewife was fined RM12,000 today, or six months’ jail in default, for spreading fake news about vaccines on Facebook.
Tengku Noor Azlin Wa Kembang Tengku Azizan, 46, pleaded guilty to spreading the news through a video posted on the social networking site.
She admitted to spreading the video with the intention of causing alarm among the public through the Facebook account ‘Kak Siti Wakembang’ at 11.44pm on May 25.
“I plead guilty… in this case, my intention was simply to get the comments of my friends and for them to give their opinions on the video,” she said.
Sessions Court judge M M Edwin Paramjothy said Tengku Noor Azlin’s action was likely to cause public disorder as well as hamper the government’s efforts in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.
“The offence was committed at a time when the government was trying its best to implement a comprehensive vaccination programme to stop the spread of Covid-19 pandemic,” the judge said.
Tengku Noor Azlin, who was unrepresented, pleaded for a lenient sentence on the grounds that she was unemployed and did not intend for the video to go viral.
Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur prosecution director Kalmizah Salleh urged the court to mete out a deterrent sentence. - FMT
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