There has been a milestone development in the social media arenas, i.e., Facebook and Twitter following there act, to regulate information from the platforms in an attempt to censor fake news that has been an emerging trend in the communication industry, the most salient danger of the spread of fake news is that it delegitimizes and devalues voices of expertise and authoritative institutions and the concept of objective data hence undermines the society’s ability to engage in rational discourse based upon shared news. Therefore, it is a moral right of the platforms to do so more than the government since the platforms are in full control of all the communications currently in the country and the world. Over the past decade, companies that provide internet search services have been corrupt to the extent of merging with governments to allow unwanted access of information to the public. The government is, therefore, not much reliable in conducting information regulation in media platforms.
The advantage of such regulations is that it will help reduce the spreading of misinformation that misleads people, considering that nearly every person all over the country gets access to social media platforms. It will also help control sensitive news such as election results that may lead to conflicts if misunderstood or posted untimely. It has also helped to minimize cases of lawlessness that had been a national outcry in many countries.
The act of regulating information flow by the media platforms has been made easy through several ways, e.g., technical bocking that employs techniques such as keyword blocking, here blacklisted information searches, and URLs are blocked from access the other way is implementing the TAKE-DOWN technique where a message is sent to web hosts requiring them to delete illegal content in their web sites and failure to adherence into which he/she issued.
To sum up, information regulation in media platforms is crucial in controlling the flow of illegal content and shaping morality in the country.