Days after a Kannada newspaper, “Vishwavani”, published articles on the “turmoil” within former PM and JD(S) chief HD Deve Gowda’s family following the party’s disastrous Lok Sabha campaign, the police registered an FIR against the paper’s owner-editor and his editorial team.
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Social media is still scrambling to control the spread of election-related misinformation, even now that the three phases of voting are over with four phases to go and the polls have reached a midway.
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Ajit Mohan, Facebook India’s managing director and vice-president, wrote in a blogpost that the social-media giant is “absolutely determined to maintain the integrity of the elections” and “willing to work with local organizations, government groups and experts” to make it possible.
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The Election Commission has asked the country heads of six social-media platforms for a meeting, which includes representatives of Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, Google, ShareChat and TikTok, to fight fake news before the general election.
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The government has warned Twitter that a failure to remove posts/accounts that are carrying/posting “objectionable and inflammatory content” could lead to its top executives facing up to seven years of jail along with financial penalties.
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The purported fake news claims that the polling for the general election will start from April 7 to May 17. It also listed dates of polling for different states. The news has been circulating on popular social-media platforms, including Facebook and WhatsApp.
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