{"id":892423,"date":"2025-01-03T07:26:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T01:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=892423"},"modified":"2025-01-03T07:33:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T02:03:59","slug":"musks-x-google-yet-to-apply-for-malaysias-new-social-media-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/03\/musks-x-google-yet-to-apply-for-malaysias-new-social-media-licence\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk&#8217;s X, Google yet to apply for Malaysia&#8217;s new social media licence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s X and Alphabet Inc.\u2019s Google, which operates video streaming platform YouTube, have not applied for a social media operating licence under Malaysia\u2019s new law which kicked in on Wednesday, according to the country\u2019s internet regulator. <\/p>\n<p>X said the number of its users in Malaysia did not meet the eight million threshold required to obtain a licence, according to the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission, which is working to verify the platform\u2019s claim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s X and Alphabet Inc.\u2019s Google, which operates video streaming platform YouTube, have not applied for a social media operating licence under Malaysia\u2019s new law which kicked in on Wednesday, according to the country\u2019s internet regulator. X said the number of its users in Malaysia did not meet the eight million threshold required to obtain a licence, according to the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission, which is working to verify the platform\u2019s claim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-892423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}