The responses to this correction of disinformation are a prime example of why media literacy doesn't quite work in the wild and even proven measures like Prebunking will likely be useless for the people who are most vulnerable to propaganda.
The election fever is back in Malaysia, will there be a snap general election this year, we shall wait and see.
What are among the key trends in Malaysia’s elections over the past 17 years?
2008 - Bloggers
2013 - Facebook
2018 - WhatsApp and Twitter
2022 - TikTok
What about 2026/2027? It will likely be influenced by live shows and AI-generated content. Voters will be more fragmented.
Next week Kuala Lumpur will inaugurate a brand new metro line: 11-Shah Alam Line.
I already had an old KL map design of my own so I adapted it to the official graphic language to make for a brand new map: same graphics, new structure.
+ park and sea
https://t.co/XQOgX4VHD2
After almost 4 years of hard work, I'm very happy to share something which I hope will be a game-changer for election data in Malaysia:
https://t.co/hW0OIDm594
To cut a (very) long story short, the site gives you access to Malaysia's COMPLETE electoral history. Every election, every candidate, every party, every seat - all there at your fingertips.
There are 5 types of datasets available:
• Parlimen/DUN-level results (the 'official' results, covering every single election since 1955)
• Parlimen/DUN-level maps (covering every single boundary-drawing exercise since 1954)
• Anonymised individual-level voter rolls for GE-13, GE-14, and GE-15, as well as Johor 2022 and N9 2023 (more to come soon)
• Saluran (!!!!) level results for GE-13, GE-14, and GE-15, as well as Johor 2022 and N9 2023 (also more to come soon)
• DM-level maps for the latest set (versions going back to 2003 will follow eventually)
Enjoy!
Data-cleaning and curation is bitter work, but once it's done once, everyone can reap the benefits.
I think it's very important that we remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
If I may add to @econsmalaysia post, 10 years after independence, about 50% -- half of all Msians -- were poor
Today, it’s only about 5%
When Msia and Singapore split — and nothing to take away from SG’s remarkable success — worth remembering that it was Msia that had the larger, poorer, more rural population. Yet it managed to lift millions out of poverty (and that too without creating permanent slums).
Every M’sian should be proud of that!
Many years ago, I shot a documentary with a soup kitchen in KL. I still remember what the founder said about how just metres away from the bright glitzy area of Bukit Bintang are the 'invinsible people' we refuse to see - the homeless. The people we choose to ignore.
the reason why Palestine isn’t being seen anymore is because there’s barely any journalists left. Lebanon is going through a severe escalation. Palestine is still going through a genocide. 150k people were killed in Sudan. People in congo are being killed. Don’t stop talking.