Gurgaon: Monitoring centre to keep tab on all social media posts
According to Sidhant Jain, deputy commissioner of police (South and Cyber), the centre has been set up to monitor all the content posted on social media platforms which could spread discord in the society.
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The monitoring cell has eight to 10 staffers along with private experts and state-of-the-art technology. (Representational Image)The cybercrime unit of the police has set up a social media monitoring centre in Gurgaon in a bid to track the posts on online platforms over the scheduled farmers’ protest in the national capital, said police on Monday.
According to Sidhant Jain, deputy commissioner of police (South and Cyber), the centre has been set up to monitor all the content posted on social media platforms which could spread discord in the society.
“Many posts are being shared on social media regarding the farmers’ protest, so, there is a need to monitor them. Everyone has the right to freedom of speech, but there are untoward elements that could peddle fake news and spread discord in the society or incite people. Emotionally driven people could fall for posts by rumour mongers. The social media monitoring cell will timely identify and flag such content on the social media, and remove them from the online platforms…,” he said.
Posts by the residents of the epicentres of the farmers’ protest — Haryana, Punjab, northern Rajasthan, western Uttar Pradesh, and Delhi — will be in focus, said DCP Jain. “We will also duly analyse other posts with certain keywords. So far, we have sent 35 notices under Section 69 of the IT Act to social media platforms regarding posts that are likely to spread communal disharmony as well as rumours which could disrupt the law and order situation,” he said.
The monitoring cell has eight to 10 staffers along with private experts and state-of-the-art technology. The DCP said that this was set up in the starting of February in a bid to keep a tab on social media content in wake of the farmers’ protest. The equipment includes social media scrolling and algorithm-based searching among others, to scour for inflammatory posts on the stir.
The cell will write to social media platforms to take down such content, and later, an accused will be tracked by his/her IP address, which will then be shared with the local police for the further course of action, he said.
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