The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said the Federal Government is going to sanitise the social media.
Mohammed said this on Tuesday at a news briefing.
He said the regulation will, however, be in line with global best practices as obtainable in the United Kingdom, Singapore and others.
He said the government has no plans to gag the press or stifle the media as being insinuated.
He said: “Gentlemen, since we launched 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.
“Therefore, gentlemen, we once again seek your support for our efforts to banish fake news and hate speech from our media space.”
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