Malaysia’s next general election may well be decided by the country’s millions of young voters and its biggest conservative Islamist party is determined to win them over.
For the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), winning young people’s support means dominating the online spaces they inhabit.
“Whoever controls [online] media will gain their votes,” said the party’s deputy president, Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man, in an interview with This Week in Asia.
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