Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has faulted social networking platforms, including Facebook and Twitter, for refusing to take down incendiary and manipulated content despite being reported. Such posts have led to several innocent people, especially children, being victimised.
He was speaking after inaugurating Koottu, a State-level programme initiated by the Kerala Police to spread awareness on cyber safety among children at a function at the Government Higher Secondary School for Girls, Cotton Hill, on Tuesday.
Advocating steps to regulate social media, Mr. Vijayan criticised the apathetic response to repeated calls to block falsehoods. Lamenting the lack of mechanism to discard malicious content on the social media, he said a scenario that necessitated escalation of complaints to the level of the Interpol for taking down online content was unacceptable.
