ISLAMABAD: The media experts on Thursday considering country’s fifty million users vulnerability to social media‘s toxicity asked authorities concerned to establish ‘Analysis Centre’ to monitor emerging threats.

They warned that country’s majority of the population was youth and it was imperative to sensitize them about evil forces working against national interest for their ulterior motives.
International Islamic university mass communication studies department chairman Dr. Zafar Iqbal stressed that social media gatekeeping is in greater national interest by implementing international and national laws to ensure filtering misinformation and disinformation.
Stressing on the vigilance of quarters concerned, he said that the social media was a new battlefield shaping human ideologies and youth brains were more prone to radicalize which could harm cohesion and peace in the society.
Prof Dr. Inam Ur Rehman said that the developed countries have enacted strict rules as an example to this was Germany’s parliaments recently introduced rules enabling to impose up to Euro 50 million fines on even popular sites like Facebook and Youtube for posting illegal content, such as hate speech and incitements to violence.