KYIV–Hiroshi Mikitani, the owner and also president of Rakuten Group (4755. T), on Saturday proclaimed the ability of his firm’s Viber messaging system to counter Russian publicity.
“Unlike other social media, we’ve made it crystal clear we’re going to block all these fake news and propaganda of Russia,” Mikitani informed Reuters in a Zoom meeting during a visit to Kyiv.
The 58-year old was talking after satisfying elderly Ukrainian authorities previously in the day as component of a team of Japanese magnate going along with Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi on a visit to Ukraine’s funding.
“We met almost all ministers and they are building a future strategy… they have a macro-economic growth strategy, and I am very encouraged and impressed,” he stated.
Viber, which introduced in 2010 and also was gotten by Rakuten …