KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 4): The government is in the process of determining the most appropriate method of identifying valid owners of social media accounts in the country, said Communications and Multimedia Minister Gobind Singh Deo.

He said the mechanism is crucial to ensure that the social media accounts owned by the ministry and government agencies are valid and are not abused.

"We will now look at one method (approach) where we can confirm the names used in the social media. The people frequently look at the accounts available in the social media and think that they are the official website of the ministry or agencies concerned.

"So we must have a mechanism whereby we can confirm that the people know information from which website is the official one by the government,” he told reporters when met at the closing ceremony of Fiesta Deepavali 2018 at Little India Brickfields, tonight.

Gobind was asked on the government's solution on invalid accounts using the name or representing the ministries and government-related agencies.