A former media aide to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, Bashir Ahmed, has discoverable that the social media app TikTok is inflicting extra hurt than excellent for Nigeria.
Ahmed said that the platform, an increasing number of favoured via legal parts to achieve the community, calls for stricter law via stakeholders.
In a publish on his X.com account past due Wednesday, the previous aide argued that the liberty equipped via the app is emboldening criminals to unfold incorrect information and propaganda.
He stated, “It’s alarming that TikTok, a world social media platform, is being utilised via criminals similar to bandits, kidnappers, and terrorists in Nigeria to have interaction with the community and, in some instances, even interact in are living conversations protecting their heinous actions.
“The platform is causing more harm than good to our country, as it not only amplifies the voices of these criminals but also emboldens them by providing a space to spread their propaganda and misinformation. Nigeria needs stricter regulations and content monitoring on TikTok to prevent these dangerous individuals from using it for their malicious agendas.”
All the way through Buhari’s tenure, the Federal Govt opposed the operations of the microblogging web site Twitter, now X, in Nigeria for 222 days.
Twitter’s operations had been suspended in Nigeria in June 2021, simply days upcoming the platform deleted a tweet via Buhari.
The Buhari management, of which Ahmed used to be an element, lifted the oppose from nighttime on 13 January 2022.
Lately, considerations had been raised over viral movies on TikTok appearing bandits flaunting money purportedly gathered as ransom for his or her sufferers.
A counter-insurgency knowledgeable and safety analyst, Zagazola Makama, highlighted those movies in a layout of posts on his X account.