TINUBU: SOCIAL MEDIA A MENACE. MUST BE REGULATED.

President Bola Tinubu at a book launch in Eko Hotel, Lagos has described social media as a menace that must be regulated.

Speaking at the presentation of “National Public Discourse: the interplay between empirical evidence and hyperbole,” a book by Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, Tinubu said there was clear evidence that public discourse was driven by alternative facts.

Represented by his Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, who first spoke before delivering his prepared speech, the president said the views of Miss Toyosi Akerele, one of the panelists, shared closely with his sentiments.

part of his statement reads “In this new world, public discourse is driven by alternative facts, dropped with reckless abandon on social media and technology, including artificial intelligence tools, allowing for the creation of false realities to confuse and deceive people and distort perceptions of what is real and what isn’t.”

The president explained that, “The challenge we face and must meet head-on is how to return to having a public discourse and a political and policy decision-making process that overcomes this new paradigm.