Legal notice to remove Facebook posts and YouTube videos containing fake and concocted news

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Legal notice to remove Facebook posts and YouTube videos containing fake and concocted news

Peoples Time Desk

Published : Sunday, 21 August, 2022 at 5:40 PM, Count : 1631

Legal notice to remove Facebook posts and YouTube videos containing fake and concocted news

Barrister Arafat Hosen Khan, Advocate, Bangladesh Supreme Court, have sent a legal notice to Facebook, Ms. Sabhanaz Rashid Diya, Head of Public Policy, Bangladesh, Facebook and YouTube, as well as several government bodies including the Chairman, Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC); Director General, Digital Security Agency; Inspector General of Police (IGP), Bangladesh Police Police Headquarters, etc. for their inactions and failure to discharge their statutory duties to regulate, monitor, take down and remove contents in online social and/or digital media platforms infringing the sovereignty, integrity and security of the State; public order; and misleading information tarnishing the image of the State organs which is violative of the provisions of Articles 27, 31, 39 and 44 of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh read with Sections 30, 64, 76, 97A of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Act, 2001, Sections 8, 13, 16, 25 of the Digital Security Act, 2018 and Section 46 of the Information and Communication Technology Act, 2006 (as amended in 2013) on behalf of two lawyers namely 1) Nilufer Anjum, Advocate, Bangladesh Supreme Court and 2) Md. Ashraful Islam, Barrister and Advocate, Dhaka Judge Court.

It has been said in their legal notice that, in recent past it has been observed that the Facebook and YouTube do not apply any supervisory mechanism or have control over its contents especially in Bangladesh, while a large number of fake news, contents, images, videos containing obscene and damaging the images of various political figures, intellectuals, tarnishing the image of Bangladesh as a nation, disclosing various sensitive issues relating to international policies, broadcasting misleading and twisted information through various Facebook users and YouTube subscribers inside and outside Bangladesh with an object to diminish the country’s image. Further in order to tarnish Bangladesh’s image as a failed State towards the international community and to create turmoil within Bangladesh, a vested quarter both inside and outside Bangladesh are purportedly circulating propagandas.

It has also been said in the legal notice that due to the recent post COVID-19 economic upsurge and international crisis resulting out of Russia-Ukraine war, the whole world is undergoing a serious economic crisis. As a part of this global economy, Bangladesh is not an exception to this global economic unrest. Various other countries including number of western countries are undergoing serious inflation, unemployment issue, increase of price hike, scarcity of foods and above all a global increase of oil price. Ironically, the same vested quarters are manipulating this global phenomenon with a heinous object to create an abnormal situation, public disorder, civil disobedience, threat to national security and above all spoiling Government’s image. By using Facebook and YouTube as a medium, number of Facebook users (both in individual as well group user’s capacity) and YouTube users and subscribers are spreading rumours and propagandas to embarrass the Government into a delicate situation.

However, due to the lack of regulation from the BTRC and DSA and absence of foresight and deliberate ignorance from Facebook and YouTube’s recently various frivolous, fictitious and fake news are being widely circulated through the Facebook and YouTube mediums to incite violence and public disorder. It is noteworthy to mention the following fake and concocted news posts and videos are being published and widely circulated in the online social media platforms to incite violence and public disorder by the Facebook and YouTube and there are in violation on their own community policy standard, mentioned in the legal notice.

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