Two days after Twitter suspended Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) leader Khadim Hussain Rizvi’s handle on the government’s complaint, Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Tuesday urged YouTube and WhatsApp to combat hate mongering.
“Its so welcoming that giants like Twitter and Facebook are now fully committed to regulate their platforms to combat the menace of fake news and hate mongering, youtube and whatsapp plz consider same policy for a safer world,” he wrote on Twitter while tweeting a link to a New York Times article.
Twitter on Sunday suspended TLP chief Rizvi’s account after his party led a three-day protest against a Supreme Court verdict acquitting Asia Bibi – a Christian woman who had been on death row for eight years in a blasphemy case.
The demonstrations had paralysed the country for three days. The TLP chief was among over a thousand booked for disruption of peace, destruction of property and blocking of roads.
Published in Daily Times, November 7th 2018.
