NEW DELHI: IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday demanded higher responsibility from social media platforms like WhatsApp, announcing finding technological answers to identify mass-circulation of messages on a selected factor in a selected house cannot be "rocket science".
Prasad mentioned social media firms like WhatsApp which might be reaping industrial features from India's market have to remain accountable and vigilant to forestall abuse of their platforms for spread of unhealthy and provocative messages.
WhatsApp has come under hearth following a spate of lynching incidents purportedly prompted through provocative messages circulating on its platform.
The executive the day past issued a caution to the popular messaging app asking it to take immediate measures to forestall the spread of "irresponsible and explosive messages".
WhatsApp has responded to the federal government realize announcing it is "horrified" through the "terrible acts of violence" and has defined steps being taken through the corporate to curb abuse of its platform. It also highlighted that fake information, incorrect information, and hoaxes can be checked through the federal government, civil society and era firms working in combination.
Prasad lately requested WhatsApp to work in a coordinated manner with the country's IT Department, Home Ministry and the police.
"If in any state, any part, on a particular subject, if there is a movement of large volumes of messages on WhatsApp, it is not rocket science that can't be discovered by application of technology," Prasad mentioned at the sidelines of a convention.
Prasad mentioned social media firms like WhatsApp which might be reaping industrial features from India's market have to remain accountable and vigilant to forestall abuse of their platforms for spread of unhealthy and provocative messages.
WhatsApp has come under hearth following a spate of lynching incidents purportedly prompted through provocative messages circulating on its platform.
The executive the day past issued a caution to the popular messaging app asking it to take immediate measures to forestall the spread of "irresponsible and explosive messages".
WhatsApp has responded to the federal government realize announcing it is "horrified" through the "terrible acts of violence" and has defined steps being taken through the corporate to curb abuse of its platform. It also highlighted that fake information, incorrect information, and hoaxes can be checked through the federal government, civil society and era firms working in combination.
Prasad lately requested WhatsApp to work in a coordinated manner with the country's IT Department, Home Ministry and the police.
"If in any state, any part, on a particular subject, if there is a movement of large volumes of messages on WhatsApp, it is not rocket science that can't be discovered by application of technology," Prasad mentioned at the sidelines of a convention.
Fake messages: Govt demands accountability from social media platforms
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