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Adding communal colour to the news is a bad practice: SC!
By: Tupaki Desk | 2 Sep 2021 11:10 AM GMT
We have seen how a few media outlets have attributed the Tablighi Jamaat gathering to the spread of Covid in the country during the first wave of Covid. The gathering that took place in the national capital Delhi was blamed for spreading the deadly Covid.
Finding fault for wrongly attributing the gathering for the virus spread, a bunch of petitions were filed at the Supreme Court. These petitions were filed seeking directives to stop the spread of this fake news. The petitions came for the hearing and the Supreme Court heard the petitions.
The constitutional bench led by the Chief Justice of India NV Ramana heard the bunch of petitions. During the hearing, the Supreme Court had slammed a few media outlets that had painted the communal color to the Taliban gathering.
During the arguments, CJI NV Ramana had come down on the media outlets for carrying out stories on the religious gathering from a biased point of view. The news is covered from a communal angle. This is very wrong which brings a bad name to the country.
The Supreme Court also said the main issue with social media platforms is that popular platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube won't have any accountability and carried out stories. The social media giants won't even respond to the judges. The social media giants will listen to just powerful voices.
Taking about the spread of the fake news, the bench of the Supreme Court said the YouTube channels and a few web portals spread fake news. Anyone can start a YouTube channel. This Is resulting in the spread of fake news.
As a response to the petition filed by the union government to transfer all the cases against the IT Rules across the High Courts in the country, the Supreme Court had adjourned the hearing of the petition seeking transfer of the IT Rules-related cases after six weeks.
The Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the Apex Court that the IT Rules were framed to stop the unwanted and fake news from reaching the readers. However, the bench said, these rules are for TV and Newspapers, and what about the social media platforms.
Finding fault for wrongly attributing the gathering for the virus spread, a bunch of petitions were filed at the Supreme Court. These petitions were filed seeking directives to stop the spread of this fake news. The petitions came for the hearing and the Supreme Court heard the petitions.
The constitutional bench led by the Chief Justice of India NV Ramana heard the bunch of petitions. During the hearing, the Supreme Court had slammed a few media outlets that had painted the communal color to the Taliban gathering.
During the arguments, CJI NV Ramana had come down on the media outlets for carrying out stories on the religious gathering from a biased point of view. The news is covered from a communal angle. This is very wrong which brings a bad name to the country.
The Supreme Court also said the main issue with social media platforms is that popular platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube won't have any accountability and carried out stories. The social media giants won't even respond to the judges. The social media giants will listen to just powerful voices.
Taking about the spread of the fake news, the bench of the Supreme Court said the YouTube channels and a few web portals spread fake news. Anyone can start a YouTube channel. This Is resulting in the spread of fake news.
As a response to the petition filed by the union government to transfer all the cases against the IT Rules across the High Courts in the country, the Supreme Court had adjourned the hearing of the petition seeking transfer of the IT Rules-related cases after six weeks.
The Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the Apex Court that the IT Rules were framed to stop the unwanted and fake news from reaching the readers. However, the bench said, these rules are for TV and Newspapers, and what about the social media platforms.
