Let’s regulate social media use

 Dear Editor,

I wish to express disap­pointment about the way and manner social media got awash with gory images from the crash site of the military helicopter on Wednesday.

The accident took the lives of all eight mem­bers on board including two ministers of state, Dr Edward Omane Boamah and Alhaji Dr Mohammed Murtala.

Moments after the news broke out, pictures and videos of burning victims dominated the various media platforms with no regard to the state of the respective families directly connected to the victims.

Ethically, that was bad, and for agencies respon­sible for regulating the media space, this should be the straw that hits the camel’s back in initiating processes to put in place some controls.

Recently, an interna­tional footballer, Diogo Jota from Portugal was involved in a fatal accident with his brother. Both lost their lives in the fatal road accident but nothing of this sort happened.

There were no pictures from the accident scene nor images of the body al­though there were rescuers at the scene.

With the advent of blog­ging, there seem a sudden rush by account holders to be the first to break news. These people often disre­gard basic ethics just to be able to direct traffic to their platforms.

I think the authorities in charge must find a way to regulate, and when needed crack the whip if people were found to have gone against the law.

Mark Addo,

Kasoa