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India government meets with WhatsApp over tracing of fake news

Men pose with smartphones in front of displayed WhatsApp logo. [Photo: Reuters]

MUMBAI - Indian tech ministry officials met with senior WhatsApp executives this week to ask the Facebook unit to start tracing the origins of misinformation spread through its messaging platform, a senior government official said on Friday.

WhatsApp has been working to curb the circulation of what technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad termed “sinister” content in India, the firm’s biggest market where it boasts over 220 million users.

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