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AL to get tough on spreading fabricated news through fake Facebook accounts

by Senior Correspondent in bdnews24.com, May 30, 2017
The ruling Awami League has asked the ‘administrators’ of some fake Facebook accounts opened after the name of the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina or her family members, to either close it or mark the pages “unofficial”.
Otherwise, the party on its official Facebook page, said they would take stern actions.

The statement followed a false news reported on a Facebook account opened after PM’s sister Sheikh Rehan’s name, that former state minister Tanjim Ahmed, better known as Sohel Taj, is coming back to the cabinet again.

Sohel Taj was made the state minister for home affairs when Awami League came to power following the elections on Dec 29, 2008. He later resigned and left the country.

The Awami League claimed that the false news is being carried out in those fake Facebook accounts including one on the name of the prime minister’s daughter Saima Wazed Hossain, better known as Putul.

It said those accounts are being maintained from inside and outside the country and spreading smears and fabricated news.

Awami League says the prime minister’s son Sajeeb Wazed and Sheikh Rehana’s son Radwan Mujib Siddiq have verified Facebook pages. Siddiq runs Awami League’s research wing CRI.

There is no other page of Sheikh Hasina and her daughter Putul, and her sister Sheikh Rehana.

Putul earlier in 2014 in an interview told bdnews24.com that she does not use the Facebook account, but she had noticed some Facebook pages after her name and fan pages that carried political statements.http://bdnews24.com/politics/2017/05/30/al-to-get-tough-on-spreading-fabricated-news-through-fake-facebook-accounts

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