KUALA LUMPUR: Unity, Culture, Arts and Heritage Minister Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal has hit out at blogs, saying they made the recent demonstrations worse.

He also described the culture of believing everything one read in blogs to be the truth as unhealthy and what made it worse was that the inaccurate information was passed on to others.

"One post may say a person stole RM10 and that amount might end up being RM100 when it got around. That is how inaccurate blogs can be," he said after the ministry's monthly assembly at the National Museum yesterday.

Shafie said the recent demonstrations were "compounded" by blogs. "These things do not bring any good to the country," he said.