Vietnam: Social media disinformation must be removed within 24 hours

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[Global Times Comprehensive Report] The Vietnamese government has shortened the time limit for removing false information on social media from 48 hours to 24 hours.

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Reuters has previously reported that the Vietnamese government plans to introduce new regulations that require questionable information to be deleted within three hours. Nguyen Van Hung, Minister of Information and Communications of Vietnam, said: “If it is handled slowly, fake news will spread widely.” Asia Online News Network said on the 6th that the new regulations will strengthen Vietnam’s status as the country with the “strictest” social media control in the world. . But Nguyen Van Hung said that currently Vietnam’s penalties for publishing and spreading misinformation are “only 1/10 of those of its counterparts in Southeast Asia”, and proposed raising the administrative fine enough to “stop the public from publishing fake news” and clarify which social media The account is legally authorized so as not to mislead netizens. In recent years, in order to strengthen the supervision of the Internet, Vietnam has promulgated the “Cyber ​​Security Law” and so on. (Liu Changhuang)

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