India will make efforts to protect its citizens from influence campaigns on social media that could undermine the election process, Union information technology (IT) minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told a gathering of ministers from G-20 nations, the government said on Sunday. “India had taken a serious note of reported misuse of social media platform data,” a statement from the IT ministry quoted Prasad as saying at the G-20 Digital Economy Ministerial meeting in Salata, Argentina. “Such platforms will never be allowed to abuse our election process for extraneous means.” The…
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