Togo: HAAC now regulates online media

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Monday, 26 November 2018 10:10
Togo: HAAC now regulates online media

(Togo First) - Togo’s High Authority for Audiovisual and Communication (HAAC) now regulates online media also. Indeed, the organic law defining the regulator’s action field was amended by the national assembly last November 15, thus expanding the institution’s authority to these types of media.

The measure, according to the minister of communication, Guy Madjé Lorenzo, aligns with Togo’s desire to “adapt its legislation to standards set by technological evolution”. Indeed, the HAAC’s former regulation did not enable it to regulate online media platforms, thus preventing the institution from fulfilling its mission, knowingly regulating all media.

Regardless of the new improvement, the new law still does not take into account social networks. Hence, the HAAC will not be able to sanction, for example, fake news propagation via Facebook, Twitter, or blogs.

Servan Ahougnon

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