Supreme Court Bench headed by CJI SA Bobde will hear today a plea by BJP leader Vinit Goenka, seeking directions to the Centre for a mechanism to ascertain advertisements and paid content that may have material which is hateful, inciting, or seditious.

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" #Twitter and social media companies are profit making companies . The logic and algorithms that #Twitter use should be shared and vetted by Indian government authorities or competent authority for screening anti India tweets", the plea by @vinitgoenka states.
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The said platform(Twitter) is being used to call upon separatist, creating panic in some sections of the society, challenging the unity, integrity and sovereignty of India", the plea of @vinitgoenka says.

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The bench headed by CJI SA Bobde assembles.
The petition to be taken up shorty.

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Petition taken.

Adv Ashwini Kumar Dubey appears for the petitioner.
Says petition seeks a mechanism to screen hateful advertisement and content in Twitter.

Becnh says it will issue notice and will tag with connected matters.