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I&B Min Anurag Thakur warns stern action against YouTube channels spre
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 26 (ANI): Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur on Tuesday issued a stern warning to YouTube channels involved in propagating false news that creates panic, incites communal disharmony and disturbs the law and order situation in India.
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Anurag Thakur warns of stern action against online channels spreading misi
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 5 (ANI): Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur on Tuesday warned of stern action against online channels found spreading misinformation and fake news as India blocked YouTube channels, Twitter accounts and Facebook accounts indulging in such ac
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Oppn was spreading misinformation instead of helping families of those str
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 9 (ANI): Heaping praises on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for "successful" Operation Ganga, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday accused Congress and other Opposition parties of spreading "misinformation and misleading" people instead of helping families of t
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Shahdara gang rape case: Delhi Police registers FIRs for spreading misinfo
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 1 (ANI): The Delhi Police on Monday registered FIRs against the persons who are spreading misinformation on Twitter and giving communal colour to the incident that happened in Kasturba Nagar in Shahdara District of the national capital in which a woman was alleged
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Howard Stern defends Joe Rogan against Spotify podcast cancellation
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 27 (ANI): Although Howard Stern has slammed the controversial Spotify radio host Joe Rogan for spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine, he doesn't want to see Rogan shunned in public opinion.
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I&B Ministry blocks social media accounts for spreading misinformation
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 21 (ANI): The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Thursday blocked 35 YouTube channels, 2 Twitter accounts, 2 Instagram Accounts, 2 websites and a Facebook, stated Vikram Sahay, Joint Secretary (P&A), Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Friday f
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Karnataka: Govt order bars doctors from spreading misinformation about Cov
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], January 18 (ANI): Kerala government on Tuesday restricted medical practitioners from spreading incomplete, inaccurate, and unsubstantiated information about COVID-19 to the public on various media platforms.
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Delhi Police identifies 46 Pak-operated Twitter handles for spreading misi
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 9 (ANI): Delhi Police have identified 46-Pakistan-based Twitter handles which were engaged in spreading a fake video in which culprits tried to show that a Cabinet meeting is discussing a matter which is "against Sikh community", informed the police.
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Opposition spreading misinformation about Brahmin discontentment with BJP
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 26 (ANI): UP MLA Shrikant Sharma said rumours of the discontentment of the Brahmins with the BJP in Uttar Pradesh were misinformation promoted by the opposition because they lack an issue to pose a challenge to the party and get clean-bowled on the issue of develo
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Sameer Wankhede sues internet platforms, alleges they are 'spreading misin
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 10 (ANI): Narcotics Control Bureau Mumbai unit chief Sameer Wankhede and his wife Kranti Redkar have approached the Dindoshi court with a suit against Google, Twitter and Facebook alleging that the platforms are being used to spread misinformation again
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Navjot Singh Sidhu slams Punjab AG, says 'justice is blind but people of P
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], November 7 (ANI): President of Congress' Punjab unit Navjot Singh Sidhu slammed the state's Advocate General APS Deol, a day after the latter accused him of interfering with the work of the Punjab Government and spreading misinformation.
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Tripura Police invoke UAPA against 102 Twitter accounts for spreading misi
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Agartala (Tripura) [India], November 6 (ANI): Tripura police have invoked the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) against 102 Twitter accounts for allegedly spreading misinformation about the recent violence that took place at Panisagar in North Tripura last month.
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