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    Home»Sections»Nigeria asks Google to block banned groups from YouTube

    Nigeria asks Google to block banned groups from YouTube

    Sections By Agency Staff5 August 2022
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    Nigeria asked Google to block the use of YouTube channels and livestreams by banned groups and terrorist organisations in the country, information minister Lai Mohammed said on Thursday.

    Nigeria has been exploring ways to regulate social media usage in the country, Africa’s most populous. The country is home to millions of Internet users and platforms like YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and TikTok are popular.

    YouTube “channels and e-mails containing names of banned groups and their affiliates should not be allowed on Google platforms”, Mohammed said he told Google executives in Abuja, the country’s capital.

    Channels and e-mails containing names of banned groups and their affiliates should not be allowed on Google platforms

    Charles Murito, Google’s sub-Saharan African director for government affairs and public policy, in a statement said the company already has measures to address the Nigerian government’s concerns.

    Those measures include a system for trained users to flag troublesome content, he added. “We share the same goals and objectives,” Murito said. “We do not want our platform to be used for ill purposes.”

    The minister said the government was particularly concerned with online activities by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The government has labelled IPOB, a group campaigning for the secession of a south-eastern region of Nigeria, a “terrorist organisation”.

    The YouTube concerns are part of an effort by the government, the minister said, to protect Nigerian Internet users from harmful effects of social media, especially ahead of a presidential election next year.

    Nigeria suspended Twitter in June 2021 and blocked access to users after the social media giant removed a post from President Muhammadu Buhari threatening to punish regional secessionists.

    The government lifted the Twitter ban six months later.  — Felix Onuah and Camillus Eboh, (c) 2022 Reuters

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