Old Wall Street Journal report about corruption in Malaysia recirculates online

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Old Wall Street Journal report about corruption in Malaysia recirculates online
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⚠️ 🇲🇾 Old Wall Street Journal report about corruption in Malaysia recirculates online.

Multiple Facebook posts have shared a screenshot of an article that states"according to the Wall Street Journal, Malaysia is the most corrupt country in the world for doing business in 2022." The screenshot includes a ranking chart credited to the American newspaper and Transparency International, a corruption watchdog. However, the claim is false; the Wall Street Journal's report was actually published in 2012.

The accompanying chart is titled"Cost of Doing Business - Percentage of companies that say a competitor's bribery has cost them business in the past year." Text at the bottom appears to credit the information to Transparency International and the financial newspaper the Wall Street Journal.to The Coverage's article, is captioned:"MALAYSIA MOST CORRUPTED IN THE WORLD?Malaysia has seen multiple

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