Rakuten CEO touts Vibers ability to counter Russian fake news
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REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights KYIV, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Hiroshi Mikitani, the founder and chief executive of Rakuten Group (4755.T), on Saturday touted the ability of his companys Viber messaging platform to counter Russian propaganda. "Unlike other social media, weve made it crystal clear were going to block all these fake news and propaganda of Russia," Mikitani told Reuters in a Zoom interview during a visit to Kyiv. The 58-year old was speaking after meeting senior Ukrainian officials earlier in the day as part of a group of Japanese business leaders accompanying Japans Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi on a visit to Ukraines capital. The billionaire entrepreneur has previously been vocal in his support for Ukraine and made a 1 billion yen ($6.77 million) donation to its government at the start of the invasion. Rakuten has announced plans to work with Ukraines largest mobile operator, Kyivstar, to provide Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) telecommunications technology that uses software to run network functions on the cloud, something Mikitani has touted as a technology of the future.
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