Don’t pay attention to reports on WhatsAapp or Facebook. Just check government Twitter accounts or official news channels and stop believing in claims made on unofficial social handles or WhatsApp group forwards.
The libertarians need to know free speech is not licence for hate speech. Our fundamental rights are not akin to First Amendment Rights, as in the US. There are reasonable restrictions and they have a purpose.
PM-NRF, a similar trust was set up by PM, Jawaharlal Nehru in his "personal capacity" in the year 1948. Interestingly, PM-NRF too, isn't under the purview of RTI and CAG.
The Government of India, must take cues from Singapore in enacting a specific piece of legislation to regulate the freedom of press from spurring fake news and false alarms and while doing so it is cardinal to not overlook the rights concerning speech and expression, and to carry on the business, which are pedestal to democracy.
A fascinating development took place after the management at Tinder's corporate office came to know of an incident involving a woman who put rape charges on a man with whom she had willingly had sex, facilitated by the app.
Objective journalism is dying in this country, and crying hoarse that "print is proof" is doing no good. For it is the media that created the Frankenstein called social media, and now crying victim is futile!