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Indian ministry meets with WhatsApp to trace fake news sources
- Monday | 10th December, 2018
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Indian tech ministry officials met with senior WhatsApp executives this week to ask the Facebook Inc unit to start tracing the origins of misinformation spread through its messaging platform, a senior government official said on Friday. WhatsApp has previously declined to trace the origin of messages, citing security issues. Such misinformation has led to the lynching of over 30 people since January last year, according to data portal IndiaSpend, prompting Prasad to call on WhatsApp to trace its origins. WhatsApp has been working to curb the circulation of what technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad termed “sinister” content in India, the firm’s biggest market where it boasts over 220 million users. The firm has since launched print, radio and television advertising campaigns to educate users on the dangers of misinformation.
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