{
  "id": 16200917,
  "title": "NST Leader: Waze episode a wake-up call for Malaysia's digital independence",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/nst-leader-waze-episode-a-wake-up-call-for-malaysias-digital",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-23T15:00:20.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "New Straits Times",
    "slug": "new-straits-times",
    "url": "https://www.nst.com.my/opinion/leaders/2026/10/1562247/nst-leader-waze-episode-wake-call-malaysias-digital-independence"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "FROM haze to Waze. Social media has been abuzz with wordplay in recent days following the government’s announcement that civil servants would be barred from using the popular navigation app Waze, and encouraged to switch to the locally developed alternative TuJu.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}