Express News Service
KOZHIKODE: Instagram has become the most sought-after social networking site in the recent past for sharing photographs and influencing thousands of youngsters. But it has also become an open marketplace for advertising illegal drugs, reveals a recent case in Malappuram where a schoolgirl was trapped.
The police cyber cell in the state has registered 1,000-plus cases for various abuses and harassment through social networking sites, especially Instagram, since Covid outbreak. In a recent survey carried out by Plan International, an NGO working for children’s rights and equality for girls in India, have found out that at least 60 per cent of the women who use social media have faced harassment or abuse.