A couple of days after the nationwide raids on the premises of Popular Front of India (PFI) functionaries and the subsequent ban on the organisation and its associates/affiliates/fronts, the Union government sent out an advisory that there has been a significant increase in the posting of communally provocative content on social media platforms.
Pointing out that the overall Hindu-Muslim communal scenario strained in several States owing to various reasons, the Centre urged States to take effective steps to curb the misuse of cyberspace by miscreants to stoke communal passions by circulating provocative messages/photos/videos.
