The country has one of the highest online fraud rates in Asia. Read more at straitstimes.com.
HANOI – Vietnam plans to ask all social media users on platforms such as Facebook, YouTube and TikTok to verify their identities, citing the need to combat online scams.
But social media restrictions are also used by the communist state to curb freedom of expression, and government critics with online followings are regularly targeted. A new government decree on online information scheduled to be issued later in 2023 will make the measure mandatory, Mr Lam said, according to a report published on Monday on the ministry’s website.
This measure, he said, will “prevent the using of those platforms to create fraud groups that are untraceable”.The move comes a month after the authorities said they wouldhosted on the hugely popular Chinese-owned video-sharing app.
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