ISLAMABAD: Social Media giants Facebook and Twitter are not cooperatingwith Pakistan over spread of fake news, Media Report has suggested citingofficial sources.
Senate’s sub-committee on Information Technology and TelecommunicationFriday was apprised by NR3C that big social media giants Facebook andTwitter were not cooperating with the authorities regarding spread of fakenews on social media through unverified accounts.
Committee met to take up the complaint lodged by the committee chairperson,Senator Rubina Khalid, regarding fake tweets and Facebook posts aboutrecovery of huge quantity of gold from her house.
During last meeting of the committee, on the orders of convener SenatorKulsoom Parveen, those who were involved in spreading the news were broughtinto the meeting to explain this act.
A professor from an Islamabad based university, who also retweeted thenews, regretted his behavior and explained that he forwarded the news as ajoke.
Director of the National Response Centre for Cyber Crime (NR3C) informedthe committee that the social media accounts of the main initiator of thenews against Senator Rubina Khalid had been verified and all necessarymeasures were being taken to punish them.
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They said the Twitter and Face book administrations had been approachedwith the details of accounts involved in cyber bullying and fakepropaganda, and their replies were awaited.
He told the house that NR3C has 15000 cases pending for which only 50investigating officers have been deployed.
“There are 15 cyber crime centers all over the country with the staff ofjust 130 personnel which makes it difficult for NR3C to function promptly”,he added.
The meeting was chaired by Kalsoom Parveen and attended by senators DrAshok Kumar and Dr Ghous Muhammad Khan Niazi along with the officials ofFIA cyber crime center and Ministry of Information Technology andTelecommunication.
