Wanna fight fake news? Then come to Thailand
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Thailand is proposing that tech companies set up centers in each of the 10 Southeast Asian countries to curb the flow of “fake news” and fake accounts, the country’s telecoms regulator said yesterday.
Such centers would also work as a shortcut for governments to flag misinformation more easily to providers of over-the-top service — any digital service done through the Internet, including social media — so that they could comply by taking it down faster, said the Thai regulator.
“Thailand has proposed that OTT companies set up a center to verify the news,” said Takorn Tantasith, secretary-general of Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission.
“We asked if it was possible that the companies authorize each country to oversee such centers and in so doing cooperate directly with them,” Takorn said after a meeting with tech companies earlier yesterday, adding that the companies would have to finance such operations.
The proposal came as telecoms regulators from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations were meeting this week in Bangkok with an aim to come up with regional guidelines to regulate OTT platforms, including taxation policies.
The meeting with Takorn yesterday was attended by tech giants including Facebook, messaging app operator Line Corp, Amazon and Netflix, he said.
The proposal would be discussed further during the ASEAN Telecommunications Regulators’ Council this week, he added.
Takorn said the “coordination and verification centers” would also support a plan by Thailand’s new digital minister to prioritize anti-fake news efforts and regulate many kinds of content on websites and social media.
Thailand’s Digital Minister Puttipong Punnakanta said in a Facebook post last month that he would set up a “fake news centers” to take down online content from child pornography to insults against the country’s monarchy, in addition to tackling “fake news” and “fake accounts.” In another Facebook post, Puttipong said he “volunteered to purge content hurtful to Thais. Digital media should be clean.”
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