Tag: Lynchings in India

Senior cop, another killed in India over dead cows

NEW DELHI: A violent mob rampaged through villages in northern India on Monday after the discovery of suspected cow carcasses, setting vehicles ablaze and...

India asks telcos to find ways to block Facebook, WhatsApp in...

NEW DELHI (Reuters): India has asked its telecom operators to find ways of blocking applications such as Facebook and messaging app WhatsApp in the...

India, lynchings and WhatsApp

NEW DELHI: WhatsApp said Friday that it is restricting the ability of users in India to forward content, the latest attempt to curb mob...

WhatsApp curbs message forwarding in bid to deter India lynch mobs

MUMBAI: Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp is rolling out a global test measure to rein in messages forwarded by users, the messaging app said, after the...

Indian police arrest 25 in latest WhatsApp rumor-led lynching

MUMBAI: Police in India have arrested more than two dozen men who were part of a mob that lynched a 32-year-old man after rumors...

Death by ‘fake news’: social media-fuelled lynchings shock India

PANJURI KACHARI: The smartphone footage shows the two blood-soaked men pleading for their lives. Moments later they were dead, two more victims of lynchings...

WhatsApp launches Indian media blitz to dispel fake news woes

MUMBAI: Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp messaging platform on Tuesday published advertisements in key Indian newspapers to tackle the spread of misinformation, its first such effort...

WhatsApp in India says partnership with government, society needed to combat...

MUMBAI: Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp messenger service has responded to a call from India’s technology ministry to curb the spread of false information on its platform,...

WhatsApp struggles with incendiary messages in India

MUMBAI: A WhatsApp text circulating in some districts of India’s central Madhya Pradesh state helped to inflame a mob of 50-60 villagers into savagely...