VDCA recommends handling 13 social networks that evaluate businesses

According to the petition on June 19, VDCA received a document from the Vietnam Digital Content Creation Alliance Club (DCCA) reflecting that the website currently operates as a social network https://reviewcongty.me allowing users to share a lot of false information, insulting the reputation, honor, and dignity of many businesses and leaders and managers of companies.

Through research and evaluation, VDCA finds that DCCA's reflection is well-founded. The above website and some websites with similar activities https://reviewcongty.com; https://reviewcongty.net have signs of violating the law on management, provision, and use of Internet services and online information as prescribed in Decree 72/2013/ND-CP.

VDCA recommends handling 13 social networks that evaluate businesses - 1 — Many social networks allow users to share a lot of false information, insulting the reputation, honor, and dignity of many individuals and businesses.

In addition to the above-mentioned websites, through the feedback of some members, VDCA discovered that on Facebook there are also many Group/Page pages with thousands, tens of thousands of members, allowing anonymous members to post mostly negative content, insulting individuals and businesses, violating the ethical and cultural standards of Vietnamese people, specifically: Posting content insulting the honor, dignity, and reputation of companies. Creating fake news, defaming, slandering, and insulting the honor of many officers and employees, leading to internal conflicts within companies. Information about businesses and individuals has not been verified.

“In particular, according to feedback from VDCA member businesses, the admins of some pages/groups require businesses to pay if they want to remove negative content posted on the page/group,” the VDCA document stated.

VDCA recommends that the Department of Radio, Television and Electronic Information: Inspect and prevent illegal acts by website owners operating as social networks; take measures to prevent the activities of the above-mentioned Facebook pages/groups. Handle individuals and organizations that violate the law.

Advise and call on individuals and organizations not to use social networks that violate Vietnamese law; respect and implement the code of conduct on social networks.

Previously, on June 14, 2023, DCCA sent a document to VDCA reporting that recently, a number of member businesses and partners of DCCA have reported that currently, the social networking site https://reviewcongty.me allows users to share a lot of false information, insulting the reputation, honor, and dignity of many businesses and leaders and managers of companies.

Through the review, DCCA found that the above website has some signs of violating the law, specifically violating regulations on management, provision and use of Internet services and online information according to Decree 72/2013/ND-CP and Decree 15/2020/ND-CP regulating administrative sanctions in the fields of post, telecommunications, radio frequencies, information technology and electronic transactions.

Currently, there are many social networking sites that specialize in reviewing, evaluating, and falsely exposing companies. These websites are seriously violating Vietnamese law. This has caused, is causing, and will cause damage to the reputation, honor, and property of Vietnamese businesses. The damages include loss of brand reputation, loss of business opportunities, and other costs that businesses must bear to prevent and remedy the damage, seriously affecting the legitimate rights and interests of businesses.

Social networks reviewcongty.net and reviewcongty.comn are recommended to be handled due to many activities violating Vietnamese law.

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