Social Media Regulation Necessary To Tackle Fake News, Lai Mohammed Insists

The former administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, in which Mohammed served as its information minister, had unsuccessfully pushed for the regulation of social media and opposed media freedoms.

The administration suspended X (then Twitter) for seven months (June 2021 to January 2022), accusing the microblogging site of supporting the October 2020 #EndSARS protests.