New Delhi: Alarmed by continued violence and lynching of innocents, the NDA government in New Delhi on Tuesday asked WhatsApp to prevent proliferation of fake, motivated and sensational messages circluating on the popular social media site.
"Instances of lynching of innocent people have been noticed recently because of a large number of irresponsible and explosive messages filled with rumours and provocation are being circulated on WhatsApp. The unfortunate killing in many states such as Assam, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tripura and West Bengal are deeply painful and regretable", the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said on Tuesday.
"While the Law and order machinery is taking steps to apprehend the culprits, the abuse of platform like WhatsApp for repeated circulation of such provocative content are equally a matter of deep concern", the ministry said.
Stating that the ministry has taken serious note of these irresponsible messages and their circulation using such platform, it said, "Deep disapproval of such developments has been conveyed to the senior management of the WhatsApp and they have been advised that necessary remedial measures should be taken to prevent proliferation of these fake and at times motivated/sensational messages."
The Government has also directed that spread of such messages should be immediately contained through the application of appropriate technology.
"It has also been pointed out that such platform cannot evade accountability and responsibility specially when good technological inventions are abused by some miscreants who resort to provocative messages which lead to spread of violence", the ministry said.
"The Government has also conveyed that WhatsApp must take immediate action to end this menace and ensure that their platform is not used for such malafide activities", the ministry said.
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