Federal Government Blocked 104 YouTube Channels, 4 Facebook Accounts for Spreading Misinformation: Anurag Thakur

Union priest Anurag Thakur on Thursday claimed 104 YouTube networks, 45 video clips, 4 Facebook accounts, 3 Instagram accounts, 5 Twitter deals with and also 6 web sites have actually been obstructed for spreading out false information and also harmful nationwide safety and security.

Responding to inquiries in the Rajya Sabha, Thakur claimed area 69A of the Information Technology Act offers obstructing of web content over electronic media for the sovereignty or stability of India, support of India, safety and security of the State, pleasant connections with international States or public order or for stopping incitement to the payment of any type of perceivable offense connecting to the above.

He claimed under the arrangements of Part-II of the IT Rules, the Ministry of Electronics and also Information Technology (MeitY) released instructions to obstruct 1,643 user-generated URLs, consisting of websites, web sites, messages and also accounts on social networks systems from 2021 to October 2022.

” The federal government has actually acted under these policies and also if needed, we will certainly not think twice to take such activity in the future,” Thakur claimed.

Meanwhile, on Wednesday, the federal government asked YouTube to remove 3 networks for making marvelous and also incorrect insurance claims concerning different public well-being campaigns and also spreading out phony information. The 3 networks were stated as peddlers of phony information by the Press Information Bureau Fact Check Unit on Tuesday.

” The Ministry of Information & & Broadcasting has actually guided YouTube to remove the 3 networks Aaj Tak Live, News Headlines and also Sarkari Updates,” a main resource claimed Wednesday.

Aaj Tak Live is not related to the India Today Group, the federal government had actually made clear.

The networks were making use of thumbnails and also photos of television information networks and also their supports to misguide visitors right into thinking that the information shared by them was genuine, a main declaration claimed on Tuesday.