http://www.wired.co.uk/article/malaysia-fake-news-law-uk-india-free-speech
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43637744
Malaysia has passed a law criminalizing fake news, with a penalty of up to six years in jail. Yet no-one has defined what it is (Johnathan Head). Which means that anything that the Malaysian government says is fake news, is fake news. While deeply evaluating the article, it (basically) states that the Malaysian government is hiding so much information from the people of their country, which is sad. To my understanding, fake news has deliberately effected different countries economies, which is understandable to have a law against fake news. With the potential ability to imprison, bankrupt or put journalist out of business for publishing poorly defined misinformation, there is enormous scope for abuse, of which the worse case scenario would be outright government censorship, impinging on human rights and make people's lives worse (Priday).
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