Tamil Nadu police ask ‘X’ platform to curb promotion of scams

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu police’s cyber crime wing has sent a notice to X to take proactive measures to prevent its platform from being used for promoting fraudulent activities, an official release said on Saturday.

This comes after the spread of social media posts containing sensational headlines involving celebrities and forged logos of popular news outlets. The release said that a letter has also been sent to the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), Ministry of Home Affairs, to give appropriate directions to X to implement robust moderation and verification processes to detect and remove suspicious content, ensuring that its platform is not used to deceive or manipulate users.