Supreme Court’s notice to Twitter- Investigate fake and misleading news through fake accounts

Harleen Kaur Grewal

New Delhi, February 12, 2021: Today, the Supreme Court issued a notice to the Central Government and Twitter while hearing a PIL. The Supreme Court has asked the Center, Twitter and other internet media platforms to investigate hate content through fake news and advertisements on Twitter, fake accounts.

Government will ban the arbitrariness of internet media!

To curb the arbitrariness of the internet, the central government is going to change IT rules. The Central Government has informed the Parliament about the change in IT rules. The government believes that by amending the IT rules, Internet media platforms will be more accountable to Indian law. With the introduction of new rules, digital media platforms will have to commit to following the Indian Code of Conduct.

Attempt to bring internet media under the purview of law

A week before this, a public interest litigation was filed in the Supreme Court to curb fake news and bring the Internet under the ambit of law. The Supreme Court, while hearing a petition seeking a law to regulate social media forums such as Twitter and Facebook, sought a response from the central government. After which this announcement has been made in Parliament by the government.

The change in the IT rules was announced by the Central Government in light of the dispute between Twitter and the Center. Actually, the central government had ordered Twitter to block all the URLs associated with the hashtag Farmers Genocide, but Twitter refuses to block these URLs.