EUEOM’s report triggers discourse on media and social networking sites
KATHMANDU, March 27: European Union Election Observation Mission (EUEOM)’s ‘controversial report last week triggered hot discourse on the main stream media and social networking sites.
MOSCOW, Oct 19: US billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is considering removing his social networking service X (formerly known as Twitter) from Europe amid the European Union's investigation into compliance with the Digital Services Act (DSA), Sputnik quoted Business Insider report Wednesday.
KATHMANDU, Aug 6: The government has initiated phase-wise consultations on legitimately regulating and managing social networking sites based on the requests and suggestions that have come from the citizen level.
The government has started seeking suggestions through consu
KATHMANDU, March 13: The Advertisement Board has directed media houses to remove advertisements of alcohol immediately.
Issuing a statement on Sunday, the Board has directed the media not to make any liquor-related advertisements.
MYAGDI, Jan 5: Press Council Nepal chairperson Bal Krishna Basnet urged all the users for judicious usage of social networking sites. At a programme organized by the Federation of Nepalese Journalists (FNJ), Myagdi chapter at Beni today, chairperson Basnet asserted that the social networking sites should be used as a tool for social change.
"It is necessary to make social networking sites a tool for social transformation rather than capitalizing on the convenience gotten due to advancement in information technology for amassing wealth," he reiterated.
Council's member Durga Bhandari shared that nation-wide awareness drive was launched to encourage compliance with the journalist code of conduct. Chief District Officer of Myagdi Chiranjivi Rana suggested one and all to exercise right to information to make journalism credible and factual.
Deputy Superintendent of Police Shyam Kumar Rai spoke of the need for the media persons to aware about the news they write on subjudice cases as such news could affect investigation and judicial process.
District Postal Officer Sadhana Kumari Shrestha shared that the district postal officer had begun providing payment to the media houses for publishing the advertisement of public interest. A total of 40 media persons attended the programme intended to sensitize them about the journalist code of conduct.
Minister of Communications and Information Technology Parbat Gurung’s announcement that the government will bring new directives to prevent online media and social networking sites from spreading hateful message has worried proponents of free speech.
Minister of Communications and Information Technology Parbat Gurung, who is also the government’s spokesperson, on Tuesday said that the government would soon issue new directives to regulate social networking sites.
