The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has argued that the Federal Government will bring sanity into the social media space through regulations.
The minister stated that the planned action is in line with practices in developed climes like United Kingdom and others.
Lai Mohammed however noted that Buhari government had no plans to gag the press as being insinuated in certain quarters.
“Gentlemen, since we launched our reform of the broadcast industry, many Nigerians have reached out to us, demanding that we also look into how to sanitize the Social Media space. “I can assure you that we are also working on how to inject sanity into the Social Media space which, today, is totally out of control
” No responsible government will sit by and allow fake news and hate speech to dominate its media space, because of the capacity of this menace to exploit our national fault lines to set us against each other and trigger a national conflagration.
“That is why we will continue to evolve ways to
tackle fake news and hate speech until we
banish both.
“Therefore, Gentlemen, we once again seek your support for our efforts to banish fake news and hate speech from our media space”, Lai Muhammed declared today at a press conference in Abuja.
