The district magistrate of Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district, Mussarat Islam, has asked the district police to identify “fake media groups” that are operating without registration, and to track their source of income, Indian Express reported.
In a letter to the senior superintendent of police of Ramban on Monday, Islam said several news platforms that operate through social media “are seen spreading propaganda, fake news and also indulging in blackmail of government functionaries in the district”. He also said these platforms interfere with the “smooth running of administrative affairs” and plant “anti-government stories which are largely aimed at maligning the image of the administration and always portraying them in bad light”.
