Among popular applications today, social networks are still the most popular field among Vietnamese phone users. In particular, video editing applications and social networks providing short videos recorded the most impressive increase in the number of users in February 2023, followed by e-commerce platforms and video games.
In fact, as the amount of information increases and becomes saturated, users' attention span decreases. Viewers therefore tend to choose short, vivid content to access.
This is also the reason why short videos like TikTok are more popular and easier to trend than long videos on YouTube and text and images on Facebook. To keep up with user tastes, Facebook and YouTube have launched Facebook Reels and YouTube Shorts, respectively, features that help users produce and share short videos.
Not only TikTok, Facebook and YouTube also have many violations in Vietnam.
Recently, many problems with TikTok's ability to control content have been pointed out. Therefore, the Ministry of Information and Communications assesses that TikTok has many violations in the Vietnamese market . However, not only TikTok, on other social networking platforms, bad and toxic content is also spreading at a dizzying speed.
Speaking at the regular press conference of the Ministry of Information and Communications on April 6, Mr. Le Quang Tu Do, Director of the Department of Radio, Television and Electronic Information (Department of Radio, Television and Electronic Information, Ministry of Information and Communications) said that both Facebook and YouTube also violated the regulations in operating the short video sharing features Facebook Reels and YouTube Shorts.
With Facebook Reels, common violations pointed out by authorities are the appearance of fake news and distorted information related to political content on the platform. There are also many vulgar and offensive images on Facebook Reels; many advertisements for gambling games, prostitution applications, and drugs of unknown origin have also been recorded.
Similarly, YouTube Shorts also violates the law by advertising counterfeit goods, advertising drugs and functional foods of unknown origin, and placing advertisements on violating content.
Many offensive and vulgar content appears on short videos in Facebook's Reels feature.
According to Mr. Le Quang Tu Do, the Ministry of Information and Communications has been coordinating with relevant ministries and branches, organizing meetings many times, and issuing documents resolutely requesting TikTok and other cross-border platforms such as Facebook and YouTube to proactively prevent and remove violating information.
In addition, the Ministry has also developed tools and techniques to scan, detect and handle information violations. However, social networking platforms using algorithms such as TikTok are "dodging" the toolkit so that it cannot automatically scan and detect violations, making it difficult to handle violations.
With the huge amount of information produced every day on social networking platforms like today, if these platforms do not cooperate and proactively filter thoroughly with algorithms, blocking and removing violating content will be ineffective.
In the coming time, the Ministry of Information and Communications will synchronously deploy legal, economic, technical, diplomatic, and communications solutions... to require cross-border platforms to comply with Vietnamese law.
The Ministry will also hold a conference with MCNs (multi-channel networks) of YouTube, TikTok, and Facebook. This activity aims to enhance the management efficiency of compliance with Vietnamese laws between cross-border social networks, MCNs, and online influencers. In addition, the Department of Radio, Television, and Electronic Information will also develop a communication plan to promote and form healthy online cultural behavior trends.
(Source: Vietnamnet)
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