Nevertheless, social media is open to misinformation, baseless rumours, hate speech and conspiracy theories.
The aim is to stop baseless rumours that cause "alarm, panic and psychosis", says José Dolores Espinoza, a state congressman backing it.Others detect more sinister motives.
It was equally "absolutely unacceptable", she said, that baseless rumours should circulate on the internet – and in the international press – about the French first couple.
He said the disturbances could have been encouraged by "the suspicious hands of the dissolved ruling party and related individuals who contributed by spreading baseless rumours".
Mr Hilfiger has fallen between two stools: having had to deny baseless rumours of racism, he is in danger of losing black customers without getting white ones.But put Mr Hilfiger's problems to one side.
He calls it "Baracknophobia" and shows clips of blow-dried anchors and experts repeating widely-believed but baseless rumours – that the Democrat is actually a secret Muslim, a plagiarist, a misogynist etc.
The government will do its utmost to take action against baseless rumours," Abe said after the outcry over the edition, entitled The Truth of Fukushima, forced its publisher, Shogakukan, to suspend the series.
As Scott said, I am indeed Russell Jackson and you can contact me on [email protected] with all of your observations, conspiracy theories, Ponzi schemes and baseless rumours about Graeme Smith.
"Fellow citizens, please refrain from responding to baseless rumours," burbles an authoritarian voice on TV, even as social media is awash with apocalyptic images of bodies falling from the skies and bloodshed on the streets.
