No Law Over Hate Speech, Fake News -
Lai Mohammed
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inister of
Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed said
the federal government will
not make any law or directive over hate speech and fake news.
The Minister said this during a working visit to the TV
Continental on Monday.
He
described as fake news, the alleged directive from National Broadcasting
Commission (NBC) regulating phone-in programmes and Newspaper review on TV and
radio programmes.
Mohammed said “no government that stifles the press, ever
succeeds”.
He stated that the position of the government has been and still remains that the industry should regulate itself.
He stated that the position of the government has been and still remains that the industry should regulate itself.
He said many
Nigerians relied on newspaper review on radio and TV as their source of news
daily and such review should, therefore, be done from the holistic perspective.
The minister
also underscored the need for media houses to regulate the calls received
during phone-in programmes to checkmate opportunists from using such avenue for
hate speech.
DAILY POST
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