How to Check Rumours-mongering on Social Websites like WhatsApp & Facebook to Avoid Mob-Hysteria

How to Check Rumours-mongering on Social Websites like WhatsApp & Facebook

It is technologically possible to restrict the ‘send’ & ‘forward’ messages to one-message-at-a-time (instead of mass-mailing etc), and total number of messages can also be restricted to five per diem -- cookies etc can be used to monitor the same.

It is also possible to devise an algorithm that detects certain repetitive activities -- such as the same message being sent/ forwarded over and over again; and it is also possible for the Social Media sites (WhatsApp, Facebook etc) to allow any Government’s Anti-Cyber-Crime Agency to appoint ‘admins’ for such sites -- to whom the Tech-Teams of these Social Medias will forward suspicious looking activities for further investigations; these Agencies should have multi-lingual staff to read messages sent in English and vernacular languages (e.g. Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Assamese, Tamil, Telugu, Kannad, etc).

Unlike the current practice, these Social Media sites must share with the aforesaid Agencies the IP-Addresses of the senders of suspicious Messages -- otherwise, it is technologically possible to ‘block’ the uncooperative sites from the ‘servers’ through which the Internet Services in the affected Country pass.