State Minister for Posts and Telecommunications Tarana Halim yesterday said Facebook authorities will delete fake accounts registered using the names of members of parliament (MPs) and other important personalities of Bangladesh.
“Once we provide the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of those fake accounts of MPs and other important persons to Facebook authorities, they’ll shut down those,” Halim told reporters.
The posts and telecommunications ministry will send a letter to the parliament speaker to take an initiative to verify the official Facebook accounts of the MPs in order to identify the fake ones, she added.
The authorities of the social media giant assured the government of providing this assistance during a meeting with Halim on March 23 in London and on March 30 in Singapore.
Halim said the Facebook authorities will also take some initiatives to avert violence against women on the social media site as soon as possible.
The minister suggested the Facebook authorities to arrange a slot where the women account holders can lodge allegations if they are harassed by any Facebook user so they can easily find out the violent contents and take actions against the content publishers.
Meanwhile, several law enforcement agencies sent a proposal to the posts and telecommunications ministry through home ministry to make a ‘focal point list’ of the law enforcers concerned who will contact the Facebook authorities seeking information of any user while conducting an investigation, she added.
Officials of the widely used social networking site will sit in a meeting with Bangladeshi law enforcers in Singapore very soon, she said.
The minister said the government got satisfactory responses from the Facebook authorities while it submitted complaints in last one and half years. 
“They assured us of extending their helping hands in combating militancy-related issues through social media,” Halim added.