Vietnam Weighs 3-Hour Pulldown of Some ‘Toxic’ Internet Info
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Vietnam’s communications ministry is proposing a decree requiring some “toxic” information in some situations be removed from social media within three hours and other false news pulled down within 24 hours.
“Fake news on the Internet, if handled slowly, will spread very widely,” Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung told the National Assembly. The ministry is looking to enforce 24-hour and three-hour take-down orders -- up from the current 48 hours -- of what it deems malicious content, he said.