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Govt blocks 22 YouTube channels for spreading fakes news

by BL New Delhi Bureau
April 5, 2022
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Persevering with with its crackdown on faux information, the Info & Broadcasting Ministry has issued orders blocking 22 news-based YouTube channels spreading faux information endagering nationwide securityThis is the primary time the Ministry had took motion towards Indian YouTube accounts utilising the emergency powers underneath the IT Guidelines, 2021.

The Ministry stated it had ordered blocking 22 YouTube-based information channels, of which, 18 are India-based, whereas 4 are Pakistan-based accounts. It had additionally ordered blocking three Twitter accounts, one Fb account and one information web site.

“The blocked YouTube channels had a cumulative viewership of over 260 crore, and had been used to unfold faux information, and coordinated disinformation over social media on topics delicate from the angle of nationwide safety, India’s overseas relations, and public order,” the Ministry stated in an announcement.

These blocked YouTube channels embody ARP Information, AOR Information, LDC Information, SarkariBabu, SS ZONE Hindi, Good Information, News23Hindi, On-line Khabar DP information , PKB Information , KisanTak, Borana Information, Sarkari Information Replace and Bharat Mausam, amongst others.

An evaluation of their content material revealed that the blocked channels had been posting faux information on Indian Armed Forces and Jammu and Kashmir. In a co-ordinated maner, anti-India contents had been additionally being posted from a number of social media accounts primarily based out of Pakistan. “It was noticed {that a} vital quantity of false content material revealed by the these Indian YouTube-based channels associated to the continued scenario in Ukraine, and geared toward jeopardizing India’s overseas relations with different nations,” the assertion added.

It was discovered that the blocked Indian YouTube channels had been utilizing templates and logos of sure TV information channels, together with photos of their information anchors to mislead the viewers. “False thumbnails had been used; and title and thumbnail of the movies had been steadily altered to extend the virality of content material on social media. In sure instances, it was additionally noticed that systematic anti-India faux information was originating from Pakistan,” the assertion added.

Since December 2021, the Ministry has issued instructions for blocking 78 YouTube channels and several other different social media accounts for posting deceptive contents associated to nationwide safety, sovereignty and integrity of India and public order.

“The Authorities of India stays dedicated in direction of making certain an genuine, reliable, and protected on-line information media setting, and thwart any makes an attempt at undermining India’s sovereignty and integrity, nationwide safety, overseas relations, and public order,” the assertion added.

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