RUMOUR PROPAGATION ON TWITTER: A CASE OF MALAYSIAN CRITIC

Abstract

There are many rumours that have been spread on Twitter during a time of crisis and mass  convergence events in Malaysia. Malicious rumours can affect national economy, politic and  social impacts which can lead to possible threats especially to the Malaysian Critical National  Information Infrastructure (CNII) organisations. Therefore, this paper takes several case studies that were reported in Malaysian news sources and relates them to the national economy, politic  and social impacts later highlight the possible threats to CNII organisations. As a result, the  findings of this paper can help to raise awareness on malicious rumours attack among the  scholars and the CNII stakeholders.

Keywords: Social Media, Rumour, Twitter, Critical National Information Infrastructure