(HBO) – Managing activities in the field of information and communications, relevant agencies in Hoa Binh province have found some people taking advantage of the internet to spread wrong information and conduct sabotage.

Recently, authorities discovered Nguyen Van Nghiem (born in 1963, living in Phuong Lam ward of Hoa Binh city) opening, managing, and using many accounts on social media to post and share articles and videos showing his personal viewpoints. They included 31 videos that distorted and defamed the people’s administration, which stirred public concern with anti-State purposes.

Meanwhile, Can Thi Theu and her sons, Trinh Ba Tu (residing in Ngoc Luong commune of Yen Thuy district with her) and Trinh Ba Phuong (residing in Hanoi’s Ha Dong district) used their personal Facebook accounts to post many videos distorting and defaming the people’s administration and disseminating fabrications.

Talking about this issue, Hoang Manh Cuong, Deputy Director of the provincial Department of Information and Communications, said information on the internet, especially social networks, are huge, easy to access, and updated quickly. However, real information is currently mixed with fake and unverified one, much of which incites internet users to engage in violence and drives a wedge into the national solidarity.

Preliminary statistics show that there are more than 150,000 social network accounts in Hoa Binh province at present, mostly on Facebook, Zalo, and Youtube. Among them, many published posts about political and social issues that included negative personal viewpoints and comments running counter to the Party and State’s polices and laws. They also posted video clips distorting and defaming leaders and the Party’s reform policy. A number of such internet users have been detected, warned, and dealt with by authorities.

Cuong noted to prevent the abuse of cyberspace against the Party and State, the Department of Information and Communications has advised the provincial People’s Committee about many counter-measures, which have initially resulted in encouraging outcomes. In particular, it has proposed the issuance of documents on managing, controlling, and orienting information on social networks, managed the use of internet services and online information, issued an implementation plan for a project on enhancing the cybercrime combat, applied IT solutions to discover fake and hazardous information, and carried out a project on the pilot establishment of an integrated operations centre.

He added that all-level authorities, sectors, media agencies, and the entire political system need to push ahead with communications to raise public awareness of the Party and State’s policies and laws on cybersecurity; strongly fight against the abuse of the internet, social networks, and others on the internet to spread fake news or break laws; and increase writings that disseminate information about positive and humane deeds./.