Illustrative image (Source: internet) Hanoi (VNA) - Thailand is proposing that tech companies set up centres in eachASEAN member nation to curb the flow of fake news and fake accounts.
The initiative came after a meeting between Takorn Tantasith, secretary-generalof Thailand's National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission, andrepresentatives from tech firms, including tech giants such as Facebook,messaging app operator Line Corp, Amazon and Netflix.
Takorn said Thailand has proposed that OTT companies set up a centre to verifynews. Such centres will work as a shortcut for governments to flagmisinformation more easily to providers of over-the-top (OTT) service, thusproviders can remove inappropriate contents in line with the direction ofauthorities.
According to Takorn, the above-mentioned coordination and verification centreswill also support a plan by Digital Economy and Society Minister Puttipong Punnakanta to prioritiseanti-fake news efforts and regulate content on websites and social media.
In July, Puttipong said that he would set up a fake news centre to take down fabricated andwrong news on social network.
The proposal was made in the context that the ASEAN Telecommunication Senior Officials' Meeting isscheduled to take place this week in Bangkok to set out regional generalprinciples, including tax policies, to manage OTT platforms.
Recently, other Southeast Asian governments have also taken efforts to strictermanage online content as well as applied strong measures to deal with fakenews.
Singapore passed an anti-fake news bill in May, forcing online media platformsto correct or remove content the government considers to be false.-VNA
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