COVID-19: Kerala Police launches ‘cyber patrol’ to nab these spreading pretend information

By PTI
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: At a time when Kerala’s COVID-19 graph continued to scale up with document variety of instances, the state police has launched ‘cyber patrolling’, a strict vigil on social media platforms to seek out out these spreading false information concerning the virus.

Director General of Police Loknath Behera has warned of stern authorized motion in opposition to these spreading lies by means of on-line platforms concerning the pandemic outbreak.

There is a variety of inauthentic and unscientific stuff being propagated by some individuals about COVID-19 by means of social media, he mentioned.

“Not just creating such fake news but sharing it also is a crime,” the DGP mentioned right here.

As an rising variety of such cases got here to the discover, the hi-tech crime inquiry cell on the police headquarters and the Cyber Dome,a centre for excellence for Kerala Police in cyber safety, have been instructed to hold out strict cyber patrol on social media to apprehend those that have been creating and sharing such false information and messages, Behera added.

Kerala’s energetic instances soared to 1.98 lakh on Saturday because the state reported 26,685 recent instances, 73 of them well being employees, in keeping with the state authorities.