Key Highlights
- Satyarthi’s comments came against the backdrop of Australia banning social media for Under-16s.
- “I think social media must definitely be regulated, not banned, anywhere in the world.
- Because a lot of hatred, violence, a lot of untruth and fake things are propagated through social media,” Satyarthi, who is in the city to attend the Hyderabad Literary Festival, said.
- “We also see how social media is misused for trafficking of children, child sexual abuse; these things have to be regulated,” he said, when asked if he favoured a ban on social media for children in India, like in Australia.
- The misuse of social media should be stopped, he said.
