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Hyderabad police book Meta India head over morphed posts
Economic Times··31 Jul
Hyderabad Cyber Crime Police registered two FIRs on July 29 against Meta India head Arun Srinivas and social media account operators over morphed posts targeting PM Modi during CJP NEET protests. BJP supporter complaints cited about 20 Facebook and Instagram links with obscene manipulated content. Police invoked BNS and IT Act provisions and issued a notice to Meta.
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What It Means For You
- Social media users sharing political memes during protests may face FIRs if content is deemed obscene or misleading under BNS and IT Act provisions.
- Facebook and Instagram users should know platform executives can be named in police cases over hosted content, as Meta India head Arun Srinivas was on July 29.
- Anyone posting during CJP demonstrations should understand Telangana police are tracing account operators behind morphed PM Modi videos.
What's Happening
- Hyderabad Cyber Crime Police registered two FIRs on July 29 against Meta India head Arun Srinivas and social media account operators over morphed posts targeting PM Modi.
- Complaints from BJP supporters cited about 20 Facebook and Instagram links with obscene and AI manipulated content during CJP NEET protests.
- Police invoked Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and IT Act provisions and issued a notice to Meta about the objectionable links.
Twenty Links In One Complaint
- The cases were filed in Congress ruled Telangana days after the Centre sought explanation from Meta over temporary removal of PM Modi's NEET address video.
- Meta attributed that removal to a technical error and expressed regret, without commenting on the July 29 FIRs at publication.
- CJP representatives had separately voiced concern over criminal action against protesters despite government amnesty assurances.
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