DIMAPUR, APRIL 21 (MExN): The Nagaland State Unit of the BJP has cautioned against the use of social media to post “morphed photos and videos with out-of-context propaganda text to mislead the public and create social, religious and political disharmony.”
Stating that such posts have been circulating on social media sites and messenger applications, a press note from the BJP today said that “several inaccurate photos and its out-of-context messages were also about burned churches etc, associating them with BJP.”
It informed that the party has undertaken “due verification and found that these social media photos were old, outdated and not in the context of the country nor of BJP nor of recent times.” The BJP stated that such falsification, factually incorrect or misleading information, defamation, identity theft, social political and religious propagandas, banking frauds, fake accounts, etc falls under the category of cyber crime and is liable for legal prosecutions with IPC, PIL or FIR.
The BJP Nagaland asked the public not to be duped by such misleading lies and not share or repost them without verifying them to avoid legal and police actions besides preventing social, religious political disharmony.
