Centre blocks 7 Indian, 1 Pakistani YouTube channels for promoting ‘fake anti-India content’

The Indian government has got YouTube to block access eight channels-- seven Indian and one run from Pakistan

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These actions are taking place under emergency powers granted earlier this year with IT Rules 2021,

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which allows them temporarily take down Facebook accounts as well if they contain fake content dangerous towards national security or public order .

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With an average of over 85 lakh subscribers and a cumulative viewership in excess of 114 crore people, the blocks had been a huge success.

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YouTube is a popular platform for videos, and one of the more recent additions to this list has been India. The YouTube channels that were blocked include Loktantra TV with 12 million subscribers

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U&V television at 10 twenty lakh respectively; AM Razvi's 95 900 total followers make him/her also among world wide top 100 media personalities

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The ministry shared some images of the thumbnails or cover pages for videos found on YouTube which appear to be promotes military related content.

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They used fake and sensational headlines, photos from news anchors' Twitter accounts as well logos associated with certain TV News channels

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Mishandled data has major consequences It can jeopardize private information (like credit card numbers), cause financial loss due process challenges

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affect recruiting efforts by giving off false impressions about community attitudes toward service members’ jobs/roles

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