{"id":1663231,"date":"2022-09-28T20:50:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T00:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1663231"},"modified":"2022-09-28T20:51:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T00:51:10","slug":"vietnam-preparing-rules-to-limit-news-posts-on-social-media-accounts-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vietnam-preparing-rules-to-limit-news-posts-on-social-media-accounts-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam preparing rules to limit news posts on social media accounts \u2013 sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvietnam-preparing-rules-to-limit-news-posts-on-social-media-accounts-sources%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1663231&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Fanny Potkin and Phuong Nguyen<\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE\/HANOI (Reuters) -Vietnam is preparing new rules to limit which social media accounts can post news-related content, three people familiar with the matter said, as authorities tighten their control over news and information sources in the country.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>The rules, expected to be announced by the year-end and with details yet to be hammered out, would establish a legal basis for controlling news dissemination on platforms like Facebook and YouTube while placing a significant moderation burden on platform providers, two of the sources added.<\/p>\n<p>The sources asked not to be identified, as discussions about the new rules remain confidential.<\/p>\n<p>Vietnam\u2019s Ministry of Information and Communications and Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government wants to fix what it sees as the \u2018news-lisation\u2019 of social media,\u201d said one source familiar with the talks. \u201cNews-lisation\u201d, or b\u00e1o ho\u00e1, is a term used by the authorities to describe the misleading of users into thinking that social media accounts are authorised news outlets.<\/p>\n<p>Government officials have been holding confidential meetings with popular social media and internet firms to brief them on which types of accounts will be allowed to post news content under the new rules, according to the sources.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities would be able to order social media companies to ban accounts that break those rules, they said.<\/p>\n<p>Vietnam\u2019s ruling Communist Party already maintains tight media censorship and tolerates little dissent, with one of the world\u2019s most stringent internet regimes and national guidelines on social media behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>Two sources with direct knowledge told Reuters that more rules on internet and social media platforms would be introduced around the fourth quarter of 2022 to early 2023.<\/p>\n<p>As tech-savvy young Vietnamese increasingly turn to social media for information, those platforms have become a target for government efforts to restrict the flow of news from unauthorised sources.<\/p>\n<p>Vietnam is a top-10 market globally for Facebook with 60 million to 70 million users, according to 2021 data, and sources familiar with the matter said it generates around $1 billion in annual revenue for the company \u2013 surpassing France.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube has 60 million users in Vietnam and TikTok has 20 million, according to 2021 government estimates, although Twitter remains a relatively small player.<\/p>\n<p>Meta Platforms Inc, owner of Facebook, and Twitter Inc declined to comment. Alphabet Inc\u2019s Google and YouTube did not respond to requests for comment. TikTok said in a statement that it addresses content violations based on applicable laws and with adherence to its guidelines, but did not comment on pending Vietnam regulations.<\/p>\n<p>The Vietnamese government had adopted in July a set of non-binding guidelines on what qualifies as news outlets, including criteria to distinguish \u201creal\u201d and \u201cfake\u201d news outlets, warning that some social networking sites include accounts that mislead users into thinking they are newspapers. <\/p>\n<p>Those guidelines are expected to be incorporated into the new rules, which will be binding.    The authorities are also expected to implement new rules that would require social media platforms to immediately take down content deemed to harm national security, and to remove illegal content within 24 hours, sources familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n<p>Sources told Reuters in April that the new rules, which were originally planned for July, reflected the government\u2019s dissatisfaction with social media platforms\u2019 take-down rates.<\/p>\n<p>This will be done through amendments to the country\u2019s main internet law.   <\/p>\n<p>Vietnam in August also issued a new regulation, due to come into effect from October, that will require technology firms to store users\u2019 data locally and to set up local offices.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Fanny Potkin in Singapore and Phuong Nguyen in Hanoi; Editing by Edmund Klamann)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tech\/exclusive-vietnam-preparing-rules-to\/attachment\/file-photo-a-man-uses-an-ipad-device-in-a\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8R0L3-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8R0L3-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fanny Potkin and Phuong Nguyen SINGAPORE\/HANOI (Reuters) -Vietnam is preparing new rules to limit which social media accounts can post news-related content, three people familiar with the matter said,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1663231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1663231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1663231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1663231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1663231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}