India's Right to Know under threat as social media giants bend to censorship

The big platforms like X, WhatsApp or Facebook are kowtowing to Indian government pressure to censor dissent while hateful content is promoted’

Any attempts by journalists and activists to counter the propaganda of prime minister Narendra Modi circulated by mostly corporate-controlled media are labeled “anti-national” and met with consequences. In Kashmir, where human rights abuses by security forces are widespread, journalists who post content on rights violations can face detention under draconian anti-terror laws. Those who debunk Hindu supremacist propaganda, like prominent Muslim journalist Mohammad Zubair, arrested in 2022 over a 2018 tweet, have received notices from X claiming that their fact-checking posts violate Indian law.