This what is an ex-TRS admin (Anyhowhantum) wrote on the matters of Farhan:
[e) The lies that is Farhan and article submissions
A favourite refrain when Malay users write in to complain about racist or unpleasant articles about Malays or Islam, is that the chief editor is one Muhammad Farhan. Now I don't know for sure if there was a Farhan at the beginning but there certainly isn't any Malay Editors on TRS for a long time, even now. Yet they were happy to create this persona to further their end to publish such articles and duped a lot of Malay readers, who also happen to form a bulk of their readership if not a majority.
Of course they can and have fooled some, and still do even today, but you cannot fool everyone. All is needed is a simple test - find me 1 Malay who has some say in TRS who would agree and accept the kind of articles they published questioning Islam? Until now, I've never found a single Malay who accepted such articles, even when moderating the comments, all were aghast at the underlying tones of the article. And their naivety was further shown when they created a fake FB profile for Farhan. Of all the photos to use as an ID, they chose 1 portraying satay! A Freudian slip there - satay while obviously having Malay roots would hardly figure as an image any normal Malay would use to reflect their culture. Go ask your Malay friends, how many if they were to use an image for an ID would consider satay? Farhan was and is a lie, and 1 in bad taste. I vehemently opposed this tactic and that spelt the end of my association with them.
The other major lie is user submission to a controversial topic. In order to justify such articles, TRS will routinely produce articles by users supporting such calls and defending them. Unfortunately I found little evidence of actual users sending such articles. It's clearly written by 1 of them or their associates. So it's hard to claim they are fair and balanced, and encourage public participation, when the fact remains that they too, are guilty of creating falsehoods to paint themselves in a better light or justify some of their controversial or highly irregular and improper actions.] -
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