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    "id": 1087274,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "We cannot run away from the fact that we are living in a digital age and at a time that a lot of virtual interactions are taking place. There are both positive and negative things about the new normal. To the credit of social media, we must appreciate that it has made life easier and caused efficiency in transaction of businesses, including our own business in this Senate. However, there are serious issues when it comes to social media that we must address. I will point maybe two or three of them. As a Member of the Committee on Information and Technology, we will definitely have a sitting with Sen. Iman and see how to take this matter forward. Mr. Speaker, Sir, our children across the country have by far more friends on social media than physical ones. Our children are spending a lot more time with virtual friends; people that they have never met or seen. What that does is to seriously erodes social and societal moral fiber. We are bringing up children who are hardly capable of managing relationships because the people that they interact with more are faceless characters. We do not even know what our children are doing with the people that they interact with on social media. There is need to pay serious attention by not just the Senate, but a lot more other arms of Government to come up with policies on how to deal with social media. When I worked in the newspaper industry, we got to a point that all media houses had to come up with social media strategies and policies to protect their businesses and staff. The issue of fake news is not new to any one of us. There are characters in social media whose duty and pleasure every day is to insult other people, assassinate the characters of other people and to tweak information to suit very parochial interests. This matter that has been brought up by Sen. Iman is one that will greatly interest the Committee on Information, Communication and Technology, where I sit, working together with all the other stakeholders to see how we can regulate the social media industry. In conclusion, I do not know what happened to the digital surveillance system that was installed in Nairobi County where we were able to monitor operations within the city and take corrective action. Mr. Speaker, Sir, with those remarks, I beg to support."
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