Malaysian Activist to tweet an apology 100 times in defamation settlement

An article by Fahad Akhtar    3 Comments

“43/100 I’ve DEFAMED Blu Inc Media & Female Magazine. My tweets on their HR Policies are untrue. I retract those words & hereby apologize”

This is the latest tweet by a Malaysian activist Fahmi Fadzil, found on his twitter stream. Fahmi has to tweet 100 appologies for the next 3 days, in a defamation settlement with Female Magazine, owned by Blu Inc Media.

Fahmi Fadzil earlier tweeted about her pregnant friend being treated badly by her employer, Female Magazine. On these accusation, lawyers of the magazine threatened legal action against him and a settlement was reached in March. According to the settlement Fahmi was ordered to tweet an oppology 100 times for 3 days, since he didn’t have the funds to afford print advertisement. He started tweeting the apology on Thursday morning.

This defamation settlement is the first of its kind in Malaysia. Earlier there have been apologies on blogs in such cases but nothing like this legal settlement.

Malaysians are very active users of social networking and micro blogging sites. Last year, study by research firm TNS showed Malaysians to be the most popular people on the internet with an average 233 friends in their social network as compare to 68 for Chinese and 29 in Japanese.

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