Covid: India tells social media firms to remove 'India variant' from content

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Platforms are told to take down all content that refers to an 'Indian variant' of the coronavirus.

Covid-related deaths are close to 300,000, behind only the US and Brazil, although some experts believe India's fatalities could be considerably higher.The instruction to social media companies was carried in a government order from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on Friday.

One social media executive told Reuters it would be extremely difficult to take down all references to "Indian variant".B.1.617, a more transmissible variant, was first detected in India last year and has spread to dozens of countries. A number of nations have severely restricted arrivals from India.

India's government this year introduced guidelines it said were intended to curb misuse of social media and the spread of misinformation.

 

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Hypocrisy at its best as usual with BBC. Doesn't have the balls to address the corona virus as the Chinese Corona Virus. Grow some Plz..

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