Politics Featured Malaysia’s Surge in Censorship Requests Signals Growing Clampdown on Digital Speech Malaysia filed over 2,200 takedown requests to TikTok in 2023, rising 40% to 2,606 in the first half of 2024. Meta platforms saw nearly 8,600 content restrictions in 2023, a 15-fold jump from 2022, with 4,700 posts removed in H2 alone.
