(VOVworld) - Facebook has been asked to increase cooperation with Vietnam to block and remove bad content and fake news in this social network.

Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan (R) and Facebook's head of global policy management Monika Bickert at the working session (Photo: VNA)

The request was made by Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan during a working session with a Facebook delegation led by head of global policy management Monika Bickert in Hanoi on Wednesday. Tuan said better cooperation is necessary to stop bad content, hate speech, fake news, slanders, and articles that violate Vietnam’s law on this network. The minister stressed that the Vietnamese Government always provides the best possible conditions for social networks, including Facebook, to develop. He also highly valued this network’s recent cooperation. Monika Bickert said Facebook is ready to cooperate with the Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC) and the Government of Vietnam to comply with the country’s legal regulations.