Kashifu Inuwa raised several concerns bordering on security, tax payment, direct contact with TikTok and general content hygiene.
He said, “There is a need for you to be more transparent on what you do with the data, experience you take and your algorithm design; because most algorithms are designed to promote hate speech.”According to the NITDA boss, “Technology can be used as a weapon or a tool”, which he noted depends on the user’s intent.
He, therefore, emphasised the fact that there should be consequences for anyone who uses social media to commit a crime and maintained that anything that is illegal offline should also be illegal online. “In Nigeria, people are using TikTok for so many things; some use it to promote rituals and domestic violence while others use it for hate speech; So, we cannot continue to have people put out random content without appropriate checks/verifications”.