New Delhi: In the midst of the Corona crisis, the Narendra Modi government at the Center has instructed to remove 100 such posts or URLs from various social media platforms, allegedly in connection with the situation of Covid-19 in the country. But was there misleading information? Not only this, it has been asked to remove the posts, tweets, and URLs which spread panic over the corona infection. Microblogging website Twitter had removed more than 50 tweets from its platform on 24 April following a central government order.
Steps were taken to avoid chaos situation
According to The Hindu, most of these posts were related to the coronavirus epidemic. According to sources, this instruction has been given by the central government so that no such chaotic situation can arise in the country due to these alleged misleading posts. For some time, old information and fake news related to the Corona epidemic were being spread on social media by linking it with wrong pictures and figures. After the government’s eye on the alleged fake post, the Ministry of Information and Technology has asked to remove about 100 posts from different platforms in view of the misuse of social media.
Delete tweets of these verified accounts
According to the order received by Twitter, some verification account tweets have been removed. These include Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera, Member of Parliament Revanth Reddy, West Bengal Minister Molloy Ghatak, ABP News editor Pankaj Jha, actor Vineet Kumar, filmmaker Avinash Das, and filmmaker and former journalist Vinod Kapri. Many of the tweets that were removed contained information related to lack of beds and medicine, crowd gathering at Kumbh Mela between cremation and epidemic.
