"However, his arrest alone doesn’t indicate anything about India’s stand on fake news, especially when no serious debates were conducted when seven people were lynched in Jharkhand over a WhatsApp rumour."
"We can teach school children to be especially sensitive to communally incendiary news and hate speech. Even portals like Facebook need to realise that it can’t just have a blanket policy for all countries regarding what constitutes offensive content. A country like India is more sensitive to culturally offensive content. What we need is auto-regulation by the platforms themselves. A situation where the government needs to intervene and create laws will not be good for anyone."
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