{"id":30605,"date":"2018-10-26T16:56:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30605"},"modified":"2018-10-26T16:56:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:26:15","slug":"curb-misuse-of-social-media-says-rajnath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/curb-misuse-of-social-media-says-rajnath\/","title":{"rendered":"Curb misuse of social media, says Rajnath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/curb-misuse-of-social-media-rajnath\/article23248447.ece\"><strong>Curb misuse of social media, says Rajnath<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Social media posed a serious challenge to law enforcement agencies and the areas of concern included terrorism, financial frauds and victimisation of women and children, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said<\/p>\n<p><strong>Occasion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two-day Asia-Pacific regional conference of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP)<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the challenges posed by social media to policing?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The three main issues are<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Law and order<\/li>\n<li>Cybercrimes, like fake and imitating accounts, financial frauds [Nigerian 419 frauds], malware delivery, drug and other illegal article sales, victimisation of women and children<\/li>\n<li>Terrorism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Past examples of misuse of social media<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2012, the exodus of North East people from south took place allegedly due to a misinformation campaign through Internet and social media<\/li>\n<li>During the 2013 riots in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, the government had said that social media was used extensively by anti-social elements to spread hatred and misinformation among communities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curb misuse of social media, says Rajnath Context Social media posed a serious challenge to law enforcement agencies and the areas of concern included terrorism, financial frauds and victimisation of women and children, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said Occasion Two-day Asia-Pacific regional conference of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) What are the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/curb-misuse-of-social-media-says-rajnath\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Curb misuse of social media, says Rajnath<\/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-30605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704787645},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30605","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=30605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}