Social media company Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has sought the government to extend its deadline for social media licensing registration, which was scheduled to come into force on Jan 1.

In an interview with Malaysiakini yesterday, Meta public policy director for Southeast Asia Rafael Frankel raised the tech giant’s concern over what he described as an “incredibly accelerated timeline” that Putrajaya gave social media platforms to subscribe to its new regulations.