New Delhi: Amid the increase in fake bomb threats on airlines in recent days, the Centre has issued instructions to social media platforms asking them to take steps against the spread of such information at the earliest.
Issuing an advisory, the Centre said that the security agencies, as well as air travellers, have been affected due to hoax bomb threats, which caused problems in normal operations of flights in recent times.
“Such hoax bomb threats, while affecting a large number of citizens, also destabilise the economic security of the country. Further, the scale of spread of such hoax bomb threats has been observed to be dangerously unrestrained due to the availability of the option of ‘forwarding/re-sharing/ re-posting/ re-tweeting’ on social media platforms,,” the advisory issued by the Centre said.
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