SC pulls up Centre, Twitter on better regulation of hate spreading content
SC pulls up Centre, Twitter on better regulation of hate spreading content
Agencies / Updated: Feb 13, 2021, 06:00 IST
NEWDELHI The
Supreme Court on Friday sought responses from the Centre and Twitter India on a plea seeking a mechanism for regulating content and advertisements spreading hatred through fake news and instigative messages via
bogus accounts.
A bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde and justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian issued notice to the Centre and Tw i t t e r Communication India Pvt Ltd on the plea filed by one Vinit Goenka, which said there are hundreds of fake Twitter handles and bogus Facebook accounts in the name of eminent people and high dignitaries.