{"id":28516,"date":"2018-10-24T12:47:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T07:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28516"},"modified":"2018-10-24T12:47:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T07:17:58","slug":"take-action-to-stop-spread-of-fake-news-govt-tells-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/take-action-to-stop-spread-of-fake-news-govt-tells-whatsapp\/","title":{"rendered":"Take action to stop spread of fake news, govt. tells WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/stop-spread-of-fake-news-govt-tells-whatsapp\/article24325642.ece\">Take action to stop spread of fake news, govt. tells WhatsApp<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Recently, the cases of lynchings across the country over fake messages on WhatsAPP have been reported.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. Instances of lynchings have been reported from States like Assam, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tripura, and West Bengal.<\/p>\n<p>3. Instances have been reported by mobs provoked by \u201cirresponsible and explosive messages\u201d on Whatsapp.<\/p>\n<p>4. The government has taken the following measures in this regard:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Asked the service provider to take immediate measures to ensure that its platform was not misused.<\/li>\n<li>Directed that the spread of such messages be immediately contained through the application of appropriate technology.<\/li>\n<li>The government has asked service providers to take necessary remedial measures to prevent proliferation of these fake and sensational messages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>5. Mob lynching:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mob Lynching means killing of someone by a mob for an alleged offence without following any principles of jurisprudence or due process of law.<\/li>\n<li>A lynching is a majority way of telling a minority population that the law cannot protect it.<\/li>\n<li>Lynching served the broad social purpose of maintaining superiority in economic, social, cultural and political sphere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take action to stop spread of fake news, govt. tells WhatsApp News: Recently, the cases of lynchings across the country over fake messages on WhatsAPP have been reported. Important facts: 2. Instances of lynchings have been reported from States like Assam, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tripura, and West Bengal. 3. Instances have been reported by mobs provoked&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/take-action-to-stop-spread-of-fake-news-govt-tells-whatsapp\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Take action to stop spread of fake news, govt. tells WhatsApp<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704906241},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}