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Policies to Mitigate Select Consequence of Social Media: Insights from India

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Apart from the benefits to humanity, often, social media possess consequences such as online hate content, fake news, online abuse, cyber-bullying and other demeaning expressions. As the increased hate content causes several health issues, it is necessary to mitigate it. Hate content mitigation may attain sustainable development goals of United Nations. Therefore, the objective of the article is to identify the possible policies to mitigate social media consequence-online hate content. In this regard, online and offline opinions from the Indian respondents are gathered through the questionnaire designed for the purpose. The software which is developed in R programming language is used to analyse opinions. The analysis results reveal the role of government and non-government authorities for digital hate content reduction. The non-governmental communities-civil societies, private sectors, and intermediaries are more important to reduce digital hate content.

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    Naganna Chetty & Sreejith Alathur

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Chetty, N., Alathur, S. (2020). Policies to Mitigate Select Consequence of Social Media: Insights from India. In: Tuba, M., Akashe, S., Joshi, A. (eds) ICT Systems and Sustainability. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1077. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0936-0_35

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