Meanwhile, in Thailand, the country’s Ministry of Public Health launched a new smartphone app called ‘Media Watch’ to allow the public to report any fake news or complaints about misleading information they come across on the Internet.ĭr. Tencent said it achieved this by working with over 1,300 experts and institutions to fend off the spread of fake information across its platforms including WeChat, QQ, Tencent browser, as well as its news website and aggregators. It also claimed that articles published by the company to educated users to differentiate between fake and real news, has been read more than 800 million times.
In total, the company said 490 million false stories on its WeChat platform was blocked in 2017. In December last year, the company announced in its annual report that it had removed 1.4 million untrue stories a day, which translates to 1,000 stories per minute. That has seen companies like Tencent to put in more effort to stop the spread of online falsehoods after it was accused of violating Internet laws, together with Baidu and Alibaba. Similarly, governments around Asia Pacific have also stepped up efforts to counter fake news, with China introducing its cybersecurity law in June 2017, which is aimed at regulating unwanted Internet activities like terrorism, rumours and pornography. It announced that the committee will make up of 10 members from the government, opposition parties and public sector, and deliberated a green paper called ‘Deliberate Online Falsehoods: Challenges and Implications’, jointly produced by the country’s Ministry of Communications and Information and Ministry of Law. First announced in 2017, Singapore’s Parliament moved to set the plans in stone during its first session of 2018 last week.
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