Director of Defence Information, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche has said that social media is been monitored for anti-military, anti-security and fake news circulating around.

Speaking as a guest on Channel’s TV News at 10pm, Enenche stated that the circulation of such fake news breeds hatred and deceit.

Source: Channelstv

“Imagine when the President came back and addressed the nation, not up to 30 minutes later, a fake speech of the Commander-In-Chief was being circulated in order to do what? To derail the people. If you are not very sharp and if you didn’t listen to the speech or you don’t have a copy of it like I had it almost immediately, you wouldn’t know. So, looking at it from that perspective, it is a challenge everywhere.”

Having observed the possibility that the social media can be misused the military has taken steps to address that. One of such steps is the establishment of strategic media centres.

“What are we doing? In the military, we are now taking on it more seriously than ever. We have our strategic media centres that monitor the social media to be able to sieve out and react to all the ones that will be anti-government, be anti-military, (and) be anti-security,” the military chief stated.