Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan (R) and Facebook's head of global policy management Monika Bickert at the working session (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Facebook has been asked to increasecooperation with Vietnam to block and remove bad content and fake news in thissocial network.
The request was made by Minister of Informationand Communications Truong Minh Tuan during a working session with a Facebookdelegation led by head of global policy management Monika Bickert in Hanoi onApril 26.
Tuan said better cooperation is necessary tostop bad content, hate speech, fake news, slanders, and articles that violateVietnam’s law on this network.
He noted Vietnam has recorded rapid developmentin telecommunications and information technology. Nearly 70 percent of itspopulation have accessed the Internet while almost 50 percent are usingFacebook.
However, fake Facebook accounts have appeared,creating many posts that incite violence, insult other people and run counterto Vietnam’s law. Notably, some impostor accounts with the names of VietnameseParty and State leaders have posted bad and toxic information, he added.
The minister stressed that the VietnameseGovernment always provides the best possible conditions for social networks,including Facebook, to develop. He also highly valued this network’s recent cooperation.
Monika Bickert said Facebook is ready tocooperate with the Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC) and theGovernment of Vietnam to comply with the country’s legal regulations.
Facebook has designed tools to help users detectand report bad and toxic information so that the group can address it soon, shenoted.
She pledged Facebook will continue coordinationto stop posts that are harmful or violate Vietnam’s law.
At the working session, the two sides discussedhow to create a healthy and safe social network environment in Vietnam. Theyagreed to prioritise removing fake news and impostor accounts, especially thoseusing the names of senior Party and State leaders of the country.
They will also work together to organisetraining courses for small- and medium-sized enterprises and startups to helpboost local economic development.
Facebook will set up a specific channel todirectly work with the MoIC so as to deal with requirements from Vietnameseministries and authorised agencies. It is also ready to help state agenciesknow-how to use Facebook to effectively disseminate the Party and State’spolicies to the public, Bickert said.
In an effort to create a healthy internet environment,in December 2016, the MoIC issued Circular 38/2016/TT-BTTTT, which took effecton February 15, 2017, stipulating the cross-border provision of publicinformation. It proactively asked to have talks with Google and Facebook, whichhave a large number of Vietnamese users.
From February to April 2017, the ministrynegotiated and worked with Google to block and remove posts that infringeVietnam’s law on YouTube.-VNA
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