Objectionable contents with hate messages, especially those having communal overtones, could soon be removed from social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook.
The Government is planning to convene a meeting of all stakeholders for this.
The meeting is being planned by the Government in the wake of widespread use of social media platforms for circulation of hate messages, pictures, audios and videos with communal overtones and hate contents in recent past, especially after the Dadri incident where a Muslim man was lynched over rumours of cow slaughter.
Representatives of the Ministries of Home, Telecommunication, Intelligence Bureau, NTRO, Facebook, Twitter etc., will deliberate and chalk out strategy to check the growing menace.
“We will suggest that objectionable contents with hate messages, especially those having communal overtones, which vitiate the society should be removed from the social media platforms,” a senior Government official said.
During the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots in UP, security agencies had blamed hate messages spread through social media platforms as the cause of heightened tension among communities.
Rumours spread through social media had caused panic among people from the Northeastern region living in Bangalore and its neighbouring cities, leading to mass exodus in 2012.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a frequent user of Twitter.