MCMC Twitter account Goes missing after User Find out Account Bought Over By Teen with Old Post Not Scrubbed
On 12 January, the Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission’s (MCMC) Twitter account @SKMM_MCMC went dark after a local Twitter user unearthed old tweets with crass and puerile content from the account dating back to 2014. The user mocked and trolled the account by rerouting those tweets which some of them are racist, homophobic.
Nazrul Hakim, a 22-year-old man residing in Pahang told Malay Mail that he was the original owner of the account @Nazrullhakim, which he had then sold to another person who was presumably then sold the account to the administrator of the MCMC account. That account had around 50,000 followers at the time, so somebody has an offer to buy the account from him.
He was just 15 or 16 years old then, and he just wanted to feel what it’s like to have money, where he has sold his account to another Twitter user for RM1,300. Before the account was made private and subsequently went dark as MCMC had nearly 70,000 followers, and he did not bother deleting his old tweets because he was just a student then and he didn’t know the account would be MCMC’s official account.
In the past, the account has several homophobic tweets, racist remarks and also lwed ones expressing lust. Where he mentioned that he was just a kid, so he would say something nonsense, disgusting post, but now he mentioned that he regret saying this thing.
