TikTok slapped with statutory demand over offensive content on royals

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission has issued a statutory demand to TikTok over its failure to moderate offensive and defamatory content, especially content involving the royal institution.

[00:00:12]MCMC cited a fake TikTok account that posted fake and offensive content targeting the Yang di-Pertuan [music] Agong, including videos and images manipulated or generated by artificial intelligence.

[00:00:24]The commission said TikTok must take immediate remedial measures, strengthen its content moderation mechanisms, enforce Malaysian laws and community standards more effectively, and provide a formal explanation for its moderation failures.

[00:00:38]Yesterday, the Johor Royal Press Office urged MCMC to take firm action over a TikTok account making fake, defamatory, and insulting content against the Agong.

[00:00:47]It said the fake account, with the username Sultan Ibrahim Ismail, had posted images of the Agong alongside false claims suggesting that he enjoys eating pork. This came less than a month after the circulation of a Facebook post featuring an edited image of a pig in royal attire. The Selangor Royal Council condemned the post saying the perpetrator had acted in a provocative manner that constituted a grave insult to the royal institution and could undermine harmony in the state's multi-ethnic population.

[00:01:16]Danish Rizal Reza, FMT.