MeitY asks all social media intermediaries to remove all bomb hoax content, cooperate with probe agencies
social media platforms to make reasonable efforts to disallow such malicious acts including hoax bomb threats from being disseminated on their platforms.
In an advisory sent to platforms, the ministry of electronics and information technology has said that all social media companies must follow the due diligence obligations to promptly remove any such “misinformation that affects public order and security of the state”.
“Further, the scale of spread of such hoax bomb threats has been observed to be dangerously unrestrained due to the availability of the option of “forwarding/re-sharing/ re-posting/ re-tweeting” on social media platforms. Such hoax bomb threats are mostly misinformation that is massively disrupting the public order, operations of airlines and security of the airline travellers,” the IT ministry said in its advisory.
Apart from disallowing such content to be present on the platform, all social media intermediaries must also cooperate with any government agency which is authorised to investigate these hoaxes.
The cooperation, the IT ministry said, includes providing any information for the “prevention, detection, investigation, or prosecution,” of any offences under relevant laws.
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