Multimedia and Communications Minister Saifuddin Abdullah has ordered the ministry's secretary-general Mohammad Mentek to launch a thorough investigation into MCMC's old tweets using inappropriate language.

The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commissions (MCMC), in a statement yesterday, claimed that its Twitter account was "hacked" by unscrupulous parties.

It was referring to tweets in 2014, which were said to have been made when the account was handled...