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New Zealand Creates Unit To Target Online Hate Speech

New Zealand Creates Unit To Target Online Hate Speech

New Zealand will establish a team of investigators dedicated solely to tackling online extremism and hate speech, as it moves to address failures exposed by the Christchurch mosques massacre, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Monday.

Ardern has led global efforts to force technology firms to clamp down on extremist material since a lone gunman killed 51 Muslim worshippers in March, streaming part of the atrocity on Facebook.

But she said the attack, which targeted two mosques in the South Island city, also showed her own government needed to improve resources to curb the spread of online hate.

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Anambra man creates App to checkmate Internet fraud

Anambra man creates App to checkmate Internet fraud

Worried by rising cases of fraudulent transaction on the Internet, a former medical student, Mr Chinonso Okoye from Anambra State has designed an internet application known as ‘The Middle’.

Okoye, a software developer, said his decision to build the application was informed by series of complaints by those making purchases on the internet without their goods being delivered.

Addressing newsmen on Tuesday in Awka, Okoye said he was once a medical student of University of Calabar, Cross River State before abandoning the programme to pursue a career in the Information Communication Technology (ICT).

He described online shops as the easiest …