Web portal for checking fake news

Tribune News Service

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Shimla, April 9

Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur today launched a web portal for uploading information about fake and unverified news related to Covid19 so that appropriate action could be taken to check such news. Web portal could be accessed at http://fakenews.hp.gov.in.

He said that the information of the person providing information in this regard would be kept confidential. Provision of many security features like OTP has been made in this web portal to ensure that such information is not provided by any anonymous person, he added.

Apart from this, people can give information about fake and unverified information circulating in media related to COVID-19 on e-mail: fakenews-unit@hp.gov.in or whatsapp number 9816323469.

The public is also requested to bring the information of the fake news being telecast or broadcast or circulated by any media platform related to Covid 19 to the notice of the Fake News Monitoring Unit constituted by the government so that necessary action could be taken.

Thakur said that newspapers, television news channels and digital as well as social media were making significant contribution in disseminating factual information related to Covid 19. Due to this, the people of the state are getting correct information about the epidemic.

However, it has also been noticed that news media, especially some social media platforms, were circulating unverified information related to Covid 19, thus creating panic in the public.

He urged all media platforms and all the stakeholders not to spread rumors and unverified news and to cooperate with the government in providing the verified information to the people so that we together could fight to prevent spread of this epidemic in the state.