Pro-Umno bloggers fail to protect Rosmah, says student leader

Pro-Umno bloggers have failed to protect the prime minister's wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor from being attacked by the opposition, a student leader said today.

Castigating the bloggers for failing to do their jobs properly, Overseas Undergraduates Club representative Nur Farhana Mohd Anuar said despite the party leaders being repeatedly attacked by pro-opposition bloggers, Umno online supporters are often slow in responding due to their limited numbers and network.

"The party president and other leaders often become victims of false news by those from the opposition.

"Even Datin Seri Rosmah, who is not a politician, has fallen victim by becoming the bloggers' favourite punching bag," she said while debating Umno president Datuk Seri Najib Razak's policy speech at the Umno general assembly today.

What was worse, the fifth-year medical student said, was that at times, the pro-government bloggers shared false information perpetrated by opposition supporters.

She said social media should be treated as a war zone and government-friendly bloggers needed to be more strategic and aggresive in winning over the hearts and minds of a tech-savvy electorate.

“The reality is that leaders today are behind the times and this was taken advantage of by the party's foes who are good at spreading information, so much so that false news is sometimes taken as the truth.

"We are ready to be junior bloggers to defend our leaders who are ridiculed on social media," she pledged. – November 28, 2014.