Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, TikTok under the lens
Current Affairs : To check the threat of phony news during the continuous coronavirus lockdown, the Uttar Pradesh government has put the different web based life stages under the scanner.
Up until this point, the administration, which has set up a devoted web based life wing for the reason, has taken the cognisance of 54 such cases in the state for activity. These web based life presents relate on mainstream stages including Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and so on.
“We are making a move based on objections recorded against the internet based life posts,” UP extra boss secretary Awanish Kumar Awasthi said here tonight and cautioned that first data reports (FIR) would be documented in these issues.
He said the Center had just served a notification to TikTok and other online networking stages with the end goal of checking the phony news, particularly during the lockdown time frame.
Recently, he had said various phony news and material coursing on TikTok had coe to light in UP and the administration had been conversing with the TikTok authorities and furthermore the focal government for conceivable activity.
Truth be told, the state police had documented a FIR in Jaunpur area with respect to a supposed phony news case. The legislature had additionally suspended a gram panchayat official in Hardoi region under comparable charges.
Aditi Mehta 