Comment on Social Media Platforms

Comment on Social Media Platforms

If we look into social media platforms the user profiles are proliferating day by day. In the same way, fake profiles are also increasing with various motives. Since, identity of users are not verified by the social media platforms before creating accounts for individuals and organisations. Thereby, there is no control over huge proliferation of fake accounts on popular platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc. It is seen in the last few years that these fake accounts are commonly used for evil motives like propagating fake information, spreading hatred to achieve political mileage, advocating particular ideology etc. In the line of social media platforms uses off messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram are also increasing to spread fake news and for grooming particular community for particular purpose. 

The internet we are accessing is only the tip of the iceberg. The real information are hidden in the dark web. Most of the crimes like buying drugs, smuggling illegal weapons using bitcoin, spreading CSAM (Child Sexually Abusive Material) contents etc are committed in the dark web platforms like @Connect, FreedomBook (the dark Facebook) etc.

In this context, Government of India have taken a great initiative by launching Cyber Coordination Centre (CyCord) through Ministry of Home Affairs website as a one-stop platform for sharing all cyber related matters amongst Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs), Government organisations and other stakeholders.