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Hyderabad police book Meta India head over morphed posts
NDTV··31 Jul
Hyderabad Cyber Crime Police registered cases 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 Facebook and Instagram links with obscene AI manipulated content. Police invoked BNS and IT Act provisions days after Meta apologised for blocking a PM Modi video.
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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 traced account operators behind morphed PM Modi videos on Instagram and Facebook.
What's Happening
- Hyderabad Cyber Crime Police registered cases on July 29 against Meta India head Arun Srinivas and social media account operators over morphed posts targeting PM Modi during CJP NEET protests.
- Complaints from BJP supporters cited multiple Facebook and Instagram links with obscene and AI manipulated content during student demonstrations.
- Police invoked Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and IT Act provisions days after Meta apologised for briefly blocking a PM Modi NEET address video on Facebook.
Morphed Videos During CJP Protests
- Complainants S Aravind Reddy and T Saikiran Goud alleged digitally altered videos ridiculed the Prime Minister and risked public unrest.
- Meta told the government senior officials would vet decisions on prominent accounts after the NEET video removal row.
- Delhi Police separately issued notices to platforms to remove abusive posts uploaded during Jantar Mantar protests and the July 20 Sansad Chalo march.
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