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India may force social media platforms to offer user verification
- Friday | 6th December, 2019
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s proposed new privacy bill may require large social media platforms to offer an identity-verification option, a potentially precedent-setting effort to rein in the spread of “fake news”, two government sources told Reuters on Thursday. Verification would be optional for users, the sources said. Since 2017, fake news and rumour-mongering on social media in India has led to more than 30 deaths, data portal IndiaSpend said last year. The companies have taken some measures to combat the problem — including a move by WhatsApp to limit group-forwarding of messages. The voluntary verification scheme would give users more confidence in the validity of information on the verified accounts, though it would not eliminate fake accounts.
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