The goal of the Let's Get Vaccinated Campaign in social media is to provide public awareness and exposure on the importance of taking the vaccine to prevent the spread of Covid-19. For example, a campaign like 'Yakinivaksin' is an awareness campaign aimed at fighting myths and misunderstandings about the COVID-19 vaccine. The objective of this study is to investigate Malaysian Youth perception towards The Let's Get Vaccinated Campaign conducted by the Malaysian Government on social media. This study applied a qualitative method of focus group discussion in order to collect the data from the targeted informants, which were Malaysian Youths. The results show that, although Malaysian Youths have a positive perception towards the Let's Get Vaccinated Campaign conducted by the Malaysian Government on social media, the campaign does not affect the beliefs and behaviour of Malaysian Youths regarding the importance of vaccination.

This study aimed to explore the reliability and validity of social media literacy, behavioral intention, and sexting prevention competencies among social media users in Malaysia through a sample of university students. A quantitative method through a survey consists of 100 questions divided into 4 sections was created and adapted based on the existing literature. This paper aims to explore small sample data (n=31). A total of 31 participants completed a survey that included measures of independent variable, social media literacy which consists of technical usability and competency, privacy, content interpretation, content generation and anticipatory reflection; mediating variable, behavioural intention which consist of attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and behavioral intention; dependent variable, sexting prevention competencies which consists of responsibility and etiquette. Therefore, validity, reliability and normality of the data instrument were examined by subject matter experts and through the data analysis in SPSS Software. The result indicated that the instruments are reliable and normal distributed. This preliminary research also showed that social media users perceived positively on social media literacy, behavioural intention, and sexting prevention competencies. Based on the result, positive results are anticipated in the actual study. However, further research is needed to confirm and extend these preliminary findings.

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Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic that hit the world in the early 2020 until 2021, society still currently face with the dreadful situation and its control precautions even though various vaccines have emerged to treat this infectious disease. The world community is also served with a variety of sensational and hot news headlines about the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aims to examine news headlines available in Malaysiakini and Astro Awani, framing the coronavirus in its coverage of the COVID-19 virus pandemic. The objective of this study is also to investigate the major frames of these two online news portals in terms of their reporting approaches on COVID-19. The research adopted a qualitative content analysis for the data collection process. For data analysis, the researcher read and code the study based on the scheme from Entman, which consists of four main categories, namely economic consequences, human interest and impact, attribution of responsibility, and health severity. A code sheet was created to capture all relevant story information, including news organization, publication date, story title, story narrative, frame definition, and tone. The findings provide exposure for the community to stay cautious and vigilant with headlines posted by online news portals, especially on sensitive issues like the pandemic. Furthermore, Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) could act upon any news outlets that publishes such provocative and misleading news headlines to the public with the help from National Union of Journalists Malaysia (NUJ) to monitor each registered journalist to adhere to journalistic ethics in news reporting to ensure the information remain true and authentic.

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