Facebook, Tiktok, Google remove tens of thousands of false ads and fake news
Facebook, Google, Tiktok, and Netflix have removed tens of thousands of bad content, false news, and offensive advertisements at the request of the Ministry of Information and Communications.
Reporting on the management of cross-border platforms, especially social networks, on behalf of the Government to the National Assembly, Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung said that this agency regularly scans, detects, blocks, and removes tens of thousands of pieces of violating information. This information is mainly fake news, defamation, defamation of the reputation, honor, and dignity of organizations and individuals, and false advertising.
According to regulations, only verified accounts (real name, phone number) are allowed to post, comment, and livestream. Social network owners are responsible for authenticating users, managing livestream content, and removing violating content within 24 hours upon request from authorities.
The Ministry of Information and Communications also fights and requires cross-border platforms such as Facebook, Google, Tiktok, Apple, and Netflix to prevent and remove bad content, false news, false advertising, and offensive content.
As a result, these platforms have had to remove and block tens of thousands of violating content, and remove groups with unhealthy and harmful content for children.
In the first half of this year, Facebook blocked and removed more than 2,265 posts posting false information and propaganda against the Party, the State, brands, individuals and organizations. The platform also removed 3 fake accounts, locked 8 accounts that regularly posted fake news and removed 30 pages advertising and selling invoices.
Google removed 4,910 violating videos on YouTube; blocked 2 reactionary YouTube channels, which are not accessible from Vietnam, namely Hot Channel TV and Chinh Su TV.
TikTok also removed 397 violating links that posted false information, including 139 accounts that regularly posted anti-government content.
However, there are still a series of difficulties in managing cross-border platforms as mentioned by the leaders of the Ministry of Information and Communications. For example, many new services emerging online, such as livestreaming on cross-border social networking platforms, have content that spreads quickly, while the process of requesting blocking and removal takes a long time.
Some foreign enterprises providing cross-border services have not complied with Vietnamese law. They have tried to avoid it, using the excuse of not having a representative office in Vietnam, freedom of speech, and freedom of the Internet to avoid complying with the provisions of Vietnamese law.
The government said it asked the Ministry of Information and Communications to complete a new draft decree to tighten management of cross-border platforms.
In the field of network information security, according to the Government, in terms of technology, the Ministry of Information and Communications has deployed a warning system to prevent national malicious domain names so that people are not tricked into accessing fraudulent websites.
The government said that the management agency will increase the management of information on the network environment, especially on cross-border platforms, maintain a high rate of blocking and removing bad and toxic content (93%); fight to block accounts, groups, pages, and channels with violating content on cross-border platforms. Cross-border platforms that do not have offices in Vietnam will also be piloted for monitoring.
Training and development of human resources in network information security will also be focused on. Every year, about 2,000 network information security engineers graduate and about 6,000 technical staff of state agencies are trained in information security, according to a report by the Government.
By the end of August, the management agency had blocked 7,428 violating websites and blogs, including 2,245 fraudulent websites; protecting 9.6 million people from accessing fraudulent websites.