Ethics in Social Media

Case: False messages about child kidnappers have gone viral on WhatsApp, prompting fearful mobs to kill two dozen innocent people since April, 2018. This had caused even the Supreme Court to urge the government to use an iron hand against mob violence.

  • On May 24, 2018, a 26-year-old man was beaten to death in Bangalore by a mob that mistook him for a ‘child-lifter’.
  • Fake messages of child-stealing or kidnapping gangs on the prowl have been going viral over WhatsApp in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka recently. The messages, with graphic and disgusting images, had claimed children were being kidnapped and killed, ....
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