Social Media Regulation: We’re Discussing With Owners Of Google YouTube, TikTok To Check Excesses-NBC

The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC , has disclosed  that there is an ongoing discussion with major social media platforms to curb the excesses of their users in the country.

Team@orientactualmags.com learned that the Director of Broadcast Monitoring , NBC, Francisca Aiyetan, who made this  known on Friday while speaking with reporters, added that if social media is not regulated, young people could be misguided.

‘Every country is making efforts to regulate social media, and Nigeria also is making efforts because we know that there are a lot of things to harness from it. But if not regulated, it can also be a platform that will misguide our young people.

The level we are now is discussing with stakeholders so to agree that, yes, we need to regulate social media and at that level, there should be legislation; there should be strengthening of the law to factor in all the things that are new on the broadcasting and content sharing space.

And then, when you have the power and the enablement by law to do such things, then we can now look at, do we have the way to do it technology-wise? Nevertheless, presently what we do is that we engage the platform owners as a regulator, we engage Google YouTube, and TikTok, so that we  can know the faces behind these platforms’ she said-  Team@orientactualmags.com
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