Mr. Luu Dinh Phuc - Director of the Department of Radio, Television and Electronic Information, Ministry of Information and Communications said that the portal to receive fake news with domain address tingia.gov.vn managed by the Vietnam Anti Fake News Centre (VAFC, under the Director of Department of Radio, Television and Electronic Information). Identifying fake news, identifying its causes and harms is the basis for raising vigilance to actively prevent and combat fake news, contributing to maintaining political security, social order and safety. In addition to the measures implemented by the Ministry of Information and Communications in coordination with the ministries, central agencies and localities over the past years, such as: Actively detect and handle objects spreading fake news, request social networks to develop anti-fake news measures on their platforms, as well as raise awareness of social network users; the establishment of a portal to receive and handle fake news is essential.
Launching the Portal to receive reports and publish fake news
The information will be classified according to the fields: Policies, laws; Economy, finance; Health; medical products related to human health; Natural disasters, epidemics; National security, social order and safety; Fake account; Phishing links; Other fields.
Residents can reflect fake news by visiting the address: www.tingia.gov.vn, sending email to online.abei@mic.gov.vn or calling the switchboard 18008108.
The website tingia.gov.vn has 04 main categories, including: Receiving reports; publishing fake news; fake news statistics; news. Besides, all individuals and organizations also can report fake news via the number 18008108. The switchboard will guide people to send the information.
The Portal receives reports and publishes fake news at tingia.gov.vn
The Vietnam Anti-Fake News Center is responsible for receiving, detecting, assessing, labeling fake news, publishing authentic information, fake news, and false information on the website tingia.gov.vn; proactively detecting information trends with large numbers of people sharing and interacting to evaluate, assess and label fake news if any, to warn people not to share; instructing how to recognize, prevent, and deal with fake news.