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Whatsapp responsible for lynchings: Digvijay

Demanding for a regulation on the social media for keeping a check on the malicious content spread on it, senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh here on Tuesday claimed that Whatsapp is responsible for mob-lynching in the country.

Singh was addressing a gathering of Digital Media Press Club in Bhopal on Tuesday. He further said t hat he received worst-ever abuses of his life only after he joined social media platform in year 2011.

Commenting on the abusive trolling on social media, Singh said, “2011 me social media par aane ke baad maine jitni galiyan khayin, utni zindgi me kabhi nahin khayi, (The kind of abuses I was subjected to after joining social media in 2011, I had never suffered in my life,” said Singh.

He however made it clear that he never run away from such practices. He categorically claimed that a US based PR firm takes care of PM Narendra Modi’s publicity operations and works for his image building and attacking his opponents.

“I have also asked publicity department of MP to learn from the agency to boost image of our Chief Minister,” added Singh.

The senior leader who is quite prompt on twitter categorically claimed that well directed troll armies are used on social media to target opponents and also mentioned the name of the book on the subject by Swati Chaturvedi.

Referring to a study carried out by London School of Economics, Singh said that the study had assessed the impact of social media on mob lynching and claimed that the outcome of the study suggested that instead of digital illiteracy, it was prejudices towards a certain section that has fuelled such violent incidents.

Saying that anything these days circulated on Whatsapp has turned into a university and anything posted on this is treated as God’s message, the Congress veteran claimed that it was good that the Facebook owned social media platform is attempting to introduce regulation features to manage content.

He also slammed twitter for enabling users to create handles without revealing their identities to others and claimed that persons could form even 50 handles with different identifies.

“Such handles get into action whenever they receive a direction from the top against anyone,” said Singh indirectly hitting out at paid trolls.

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