NBC Make Efforts To Regulate TikTok, Other Social Media Platforms

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The National Broadcasting Commission’s director,  Mrs. Francisca Aiyetan in charge of Broadcast Monitoring at NBC has spoken up more about plans to regulate social media.

In a chat with Trust Radio, the director said the regulation is needed for young people to be properly guided.

She said “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 we know the faces behind these platforms.

“What we do is that, we escalate whatever we think is threatening, is injurious to our people, we escalate to them that we don’t think it’s right, take it down, and so far so good we’ve been working well. Other countries are doing the same, other countries are doing more.”

Earlier this week the Director-General of NBC, Balarabe Ilelah, announced that a regulatory bill had been sent to the National Assembly. The information has generated different interests on social media.

[SA]