Osinbajo wants international agreements to regulate social media

By Chijioke Okoronkwo

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has called for conventions and agreements between nations to regulate the social media and counter the phenomenon of hate speech.

Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday that the Vice President made the call at the BBC Conference on Hate Speech held in Abuja.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the conference was part of activities leading to coming general election.

Osinbajo said that the social media was under multi-jurisdictional regulation, necessitating more collaboration among nations to regulate them.

“In other words, shouldn’t we be looking at some kinds of conventions; some kind of agreements between countries, between nations that help us to regulate the social media much more effectively,’’ he said.

He said that a lot of disinformation in the public space at present came from the social…