CEC Rajiv Kumar cautions against social media fake news 'pollution'
Artificial Intelligence (AI) for refining electoral rolls and managing poll logistics and simplifying processes, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Friday cautioned against false narratives and misinformation 'polluting' social media platforms and underlined the need for the latter to introspect and act before it is 'too late'.
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«Let the social media platforms, which have been instrumental in providing a critical space for free expression, especially to voices not heard, not be clouded by the shadows of fake, unverified and misleading narratives, disruptive by design,» the CEC said in his valedictory address at the international conference of global Election Management Bodies (EMBs).
«The entire social media space is polluted. If we have environmental pollution outside, equally serious social media pollution we have inside. It needs anti-pollution measures,»the CEC added.
Hinting at 'business interests', he also red flagged the algorithms reinforcing distorted views and even false narratives on the social media platforms without any checks.
«It is not enough to leave it to fact checkers to detect it. It is like allowing easily detectable fake to pass through and then leave it to organizations at receiving end, like the EMBs, to engage fact checkers and
