The Hanoitimes – Vietnam has long requested foreign social media platforms to restrict content that it considers potentially toxic and harmful to its interests. Vietnam has advanced the fight against toxic content on the cyber space, with the quantity of violating content removed from Facebook and Google so far this year hitting a record high. Facebook users in Vietnam in January 2020. Source: NapoleonCat As of October 2020, Facebook removed 2,036 articles, up 500% from that in 2019, the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) said in a recent report sent to the National Assembly. Facebook has removed 286 accounts that falsify profiles of the country's leaders and disseminate fake news that incites subversion of state power, causes hostile, and defames the leaders, according to the report. To give a hand to the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, Facebook has removed 100% of fake news related to the global health crisis, including 11 accounts forging the Ministry of Health and 141 entries distorting the situation in Vietnam. The rate by Google has reached 90% so far this year. In the first three quarter of 2020, Google's YouTube has blocked and removed 10,877 videos out of 24,617 violating items from 2017… Read full this story
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