Why can’t social media platforms block or label fakes, asks CEC Rajiv Kumar

Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Friday lamented that social media platforms were not blocking or at least labelling easily detectable fakes and leaving it to poll bodies to engage fact checkers to rescue themselves.

“Business interest appears to be at work here. It is like first spreading the disease and then selling medicines. The casualty is a fair election process and purity of democracy,” he said.