Vietnam tells foreign social media according to reports in state media on Friday to implement artificial intelligence (AI) models that are able to detect and eliminate “toxic” information automatically This is the newest requirement in Vietnam’s tough regulatory environment for social media companies.
Vietnam has frequently requested that firms such as Facebook, which is owned by Meta, YouTube, which is owned by Google, and TikTok work along with the government to remove content that is deemed “toxic,” which includes anything that is inflammatory, inaccurate, and anti-state.
“This is the first time that Vietnam has announced such an order,” the state-run broadcaster Vietnam Television (VTV) reported from the information ministry’s mid-year review event, which was opened to selected newspapers.
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The study did not include any specifics regarding when or how international platforms were required to comply with the new criteria.
According to a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Facebook complied with requests from the government and removed 2,549 posts during the first half of this year. According to a statement released by the information ministry, 6,101 videos were removed from YouTube and 415 links were taken from TikTok.
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According to a report from earlier this month by Reuters, the revelation comes at a time when governments in Southeast Asia are working on formulating governance and ethics rules for artificial intelligence that will set “guardrails” on the rapidly developing technology.
In the recent years, Vietnam has adopted a number of rules along with a cybersecurity law that target foreign social media platforms. This is done in an effort to combat disinformation in the news and to force foreign technology corporations to create representative offices in Vietnam. Additionally, data must be stored within the country.
The government carried out a thorough investigation into the local activities of the short video platform TikTok one month ago, and the preliminary results found “various” TikTok infractions, according to the statement made by the information ministry.
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VTV said that the information ministry made the announcement at the event on Friday that the American streaming giant Netflix has submitted the necessary documentation to build an office in Vietnam.
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