Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq on Sunday said the government will never intervene in press freedom but wants to adopt more acts aiming to check fake news.
"The government plans to enact more acts aiming to discontinue rumours or fake information but never wants to obstruct the press freedom," he said on behalf of State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat at the Jatiya Sangsad.
Anisul was responding to a supplementary question tabled by opposition Jatiya Party lawmaker Ruhul Amin Hawlader of Patuakhali-1 as Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury was chairing the JS session, reports BSS.
He said the government has a plan to enact more laws with the prevailing Cyber Security Act for not controlling the news media but to check confusion creating fake news.
"We have to pass a law in relevance with protecting fundamental rights like freedom of speech and freedom of the press," he told parliament during a question-answer session for the ministers.
To bring the online portal under registration, he said the government has started the registration process of the unregistered online news portals across the country.
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