nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20210413-174557-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 210413s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20210413-174557-0 doi eng 342 23 Schuldt, Lasse Author aut The rebirth of Malaysia’s fake news law – and what the NetzDG has to do with it Schuldt, Lasse Verfassungsblog 2021-04-13 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 11 March 2021, the Government of Malaysia issued the Emergency (Essential Powers) (No. 2) Ordinance 2021. It criminalizes the dissemination of fake news related to COVID-19 and is an aggravated reincarnation of the country’s repealed Anti-Fake News Act of 2018. More importantly, from a German perspective, it continues the trend of anti-fake news legislation that is mistakenly associated with the German Network Enforcement Act, which has become the involuntary godmother of several such laws around the world, lending legitimacy to the global war on fake news. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 COVID 19 Fake News Malaysia NetzDG Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/malaysia-fake-news/ raw object