Centre should frame guidelines to deal with social media misuse, says SC

A bench of justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose expressed serious concern over some social media platforms not being able to trace the originator of a message

Technology has taken a "dangerous turn", the Supreme Court observed Tuesday and asked the Centre to apprise it within three weeks about the time-frame needed to come up with guidelines to curb misuse of social media in the country.

Expressing serious concern over some social media platforms not being able to trace the originator of a message or an online content, a bench of justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose said the government must step in now.

Neither the apex court nor the high court is competent to decide this scientific issue and it is for the government to come up with