Reps to Invite Twitter, Facebook, Google to Special Dialogue on ‘Regulations Framework’

The House of Representatives (House of Reps) has disclosed plans to invite representatives from Google, Facebook and Twitter to a special dialogue.

This was included in the report of the House’ Special Ad Hoc Committee on National Security chaired by the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila.

The House of Reps committee had organised a four-day Special Summit on National Security in May, while its report was considered and adopted at the plenary on Tuesday.

The report recommended among others; “Invite representatives from Google, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Twitter to a special dialogue to discuss a voluntary platform regulations framework that centres the need for platforms to have content regulation policies themselves that are well designed and consistently enforced in Nigeria.

“Strengthen the Federal Character law to ensure better and more vigorous enforcement and implementation. Every Nigerian deserves to be treated with dignity and rights irrespective of where they may physically be located in the country.

“Establish interventionist agency, or add to the role of an existing agency, to identify and provide little investment and sustenance opportunities to ex-convicts, jobless youths, discharged but indigents military and paramilitary personnel, among others; it is being alleged that most of the violent crimes are committed by these classes of citizens. Maintain a central database of convicted persons, persons who have served out their terms, and persons in prisons and awaiting trial;

The Reps Committee report in its recommendation also highlighted the need to “Establish a national transitional justice framework. The absence of a unifying transitional justice framework remains a challenge in addressing Nigeria’s intractable conflicts. Existing transitional justice frameworks, e.g., designed to address the Niger Delta or the Boko Haram insurgency, will require review, towards applying them to the many victims of the other security challenges.

“Increasingly complex phenomena such as the use of automation to manipulate algorithms that control the digital information, we see, mean that it is ever more difficult to navigate online spaces. Social media analysis has revealed that the Nigerian online space shows evidence of up to 19.5 per cent bot usage; that is to say, programs or scripts were written to artificially increase the visibility of certain kinds of content. In recognition of this, social media companies themselves have an ever more important role to play in moderating content on their platforms.”

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