The Federal Government has said work is ongoing to make the Social Media space saner because it is totally out of control right now.
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed revealed this at a media briefing today in Abuja.
According to Lai, no responsible will relax and watch fake news and hate posts take over its media space, all in the name of freedom of speech.
He added that FG will keep working till fake news and hate speech is completely eradicated.
His words, “Gentlemen, since we inaugurated our reform of the broadcast industry, many Nigerians have reached out to us, demanding that we also look into how to sanitise 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.”
“This administration has no intention of muzzling the media or stifling free speech, our campaign is against fake news and hate speech.
“However, if you engage in disseminating fake news or hate speech, you need to be worried, because we will not spare you.
“We cannot allow fake news and hate speech to become free speech, because these Siamese Twins of Evil are capable of inflicting untold damage on our democracy and threatening our national unity.
“They represent a clear and imminent danger to our survival as a nation.”
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