Vietnam has instructed cross-border social platforms to use artificial intelligence (AI) models that can automatically detect and remove “harmful” content. This is the latest requirement in a tough regime for social media companies, state media reported on Friday.
Vietnam has repeatedly asked companies such as Meta’s Facebook, Google’s YouTube and TikTok to work with authorities to remove content deemed “harmful”, including offensive, false and anti-state content. .
“This is the first time that Vietnam has issued such an order,” state broadcaster Vietnam Television (VTV) said at a mid-year review event of the information ministry that was made available to some newspapers.
The report does not detail when and how cross-border platforms will have to comply with the new requirements.
In a statement, the ministry said Facebook had removed 2,549 posts in the first half of this year as requested by the government. In a statement, the information ministry said YouTube had removed 6,101 videos and TikTok had removed 415 links.
The announcement comes as the Southeast Asian nation develops AI governance and ethics guidelines that impose “guardrails” on the burgeoning technology, Reuters reported earlier this month.
Vietnam has recently enacted a cybersecurity law targeting foreign social media platforms to combat disinformation in the news and force foreign tech companies to set up representative offices in Vietnam and store data in the country. issued some regulations.
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The country carried out a comprehensive inspection of the local operations of short-video platform TikTok last month, with preliminary results revealing “various” violations by TikTok, the information ministry said.
VTV reported that the Ministry of Information announced at an event on Friday that US streaming giant Netflix had submitted the necessary documents to open a local office in Vietnam.
(This article is not edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed – Reuters)
First published: Jul 1, 2023, 09:59 IST
Last update: Jul 1, 2023, 09:59 IST
