The Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has decried the level of acrimony and slander that currently dominate the nation’s social media space. He made this known during a town hall at a meeting in Abuja on “Social Media and anti-Hate Speech Bills” organised by Daar Communications PLC. According to him, Nigeria needed the social media more in the areas of enhancing national unity, patriotism, human capacity development including entrepreneurial skills and not for tearing the nation apart. “The rate at which the proliferation of acrimony and vilifying statements dominate the social media space is alarming. Dokpesi said that there was no doubt that fake news and hate speech on both traditional and digital media were phenomena which could not be ignored and had to be addressed.

Source: The Guardian February 03, 2020 14:48 UTC